Applied Scientist III, AWS Identity

Technical Responsibilities

• Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.
• Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems.
• Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, BDDs, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving.
• Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided
• Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences.
• Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.
• Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.

Key job responsibilities

• Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.
• Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems.
• Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, BDDs, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving.
• Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided
• Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
• PhD or equivalent research experience, or a Master's degree and experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry or academic research experience
• Experience in professional software development

Benefits

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.