Applied Scientist II, Secure Tool Foundations

About the role

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

• New York, NY, USA

Responsibilities

You will design and build agentic systems that reason about code, identify patterns, and produce security intelligence consumable by both scanning infrastructure and AI code agents. In some cases, you will invent new approaches for automated security analysis and secure code generation. In other cases, you will adapt existing AI/ML techniques to solve hard problems in security automation. You will work closely with security engineers, platform teams, and scanning infrastructure owners to integrate these techniques into Amazon's security mechanisms. Your work will directly determine how effectively AI-assisted development produces secure software at scale.

Qualifications

• Rapidly design, prototype and test advanced security analysis and repair techniques in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment.
• Collaborate with software engineers and security engineers to integrate successful experiments into large scale production services.
• Report results in a scientifically rigorous way.
• Interact with security engineers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that need innovative solutions.
• Track relevant research in other Amazon science teams and in the broader research community.

Benefits

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Pay

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.

• USA, NY, New York - 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually

Schedule

Amazon offers flexible work hours and arrangements to support work-life balance.