Applied Scientist, Amazon Connect Talent

About the role

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we aim to provide business applications that are used by millions of companies worldwide. We accelerate our customers' businesses through the delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs at the project level
• Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient, reproducible, testable code)
• Produce research reports demonstrating correctness, scholarship, and scientific rigor
• Work with product and science teams to deliver impactful AI features
• Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverables

About The Team

AWS is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneer cloud computing and continue to innovate, ensuring that customers from startups to global enterprises rely on our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/life balance is valued at Amazon, with flexible work hours and arrangements being part of our culture. Our inclusive team culture fosters a sense of belonging and encourages diversity and inclusion. We offer mentorship and career growth opportunities, including access to knowledge-sharing events and learning experiences.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
• Experience in investigating, designing, prototyping, and delivering new and innovative system solutions

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

• USA, NY, New York - $172,400.00 - $223,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - $142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually