Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Healthcare AI

At AWS Healthcare AI were revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI solutions that serve millions globally. As a pioneer in healthcare technology were building next-generation services that combine Amazons world-class AI infrastructure with deep healthcare expertise. Our mission is to accelerate our healthcare businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Healthcare AI organization includes services such as HealthScribe Comprehend Medical HealthLake and more.

Key job responsibilities
To be successful in this mission we are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to lead pioneering research and development of new highly confidential AI applications that re-imagine experiences for end-customers (e.g. consumers patients) frontline workers (e.g. customer service agents clinicians) and back-office staff (e.g. claims processing medical coding). As a leading subject matter expert in NLU deep learning knowledge representation foundation models and reinforcement learning you will guide a team of scientists to invent novel generative AI-powered experiences. This role involves defining research directions developing new ML techniques conducting rigorous experiments and ensuring research translates to impactful products. You will be a hands-on technical innovator who is passionate about building scalable scientific solutions. You will set the standard for excellence invent scalable scientifically sound solutions across teams define evaluation methods and lead complex reviews. This role wields significant influence across AWS Amazon and the global research community.

About the team
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About the team
At AWS Healthcare AI were revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI solutions that serve millions globally. As a pioneer in healthcare technology were building next-generation services that combine Amazons world-class AI infrastructure with deep healthcare expertise. Our mission is to accelerate our healthcare businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Healthcare AI organization includes services such as HealthScribe Comprehend Medical HealthLake and more.

- PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- 8 years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience

- Experience with modeling tools such as R scikit-learn Spark MLLib MxNet Tensorflow numpy scipy etc.
- Experience in building speech recognition machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects)
- Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability
- Masters degree or a PhD or equivalent research experience and experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.
- Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 192200.00 - 260000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually