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Applied Scientist, Responsible AI

Amazon · Seattle, WA · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, accommodation links, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Must not invent. We need to parse the description. Description: "We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a Scientist On This Team, You Will understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate help develop our team liase with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI" That's a bit garbled but we can extract responsibilities. Then "About The Team" section includes Diverse Experiences, Why Amazon Security? etc. That's more about team culture. Then Basic Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Benefits, Salary range. We need to map to headings: About the role (maybe description of role), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (basic qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (maybe programming languages?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not create sections if content is vague. We have specific content for: - About the role: The mission description and what you will do. Could be placed under About the role. - Responsibilities: list of duties: understand technical issues, help define strategies, solve open problems, publish, develop team, liaise with stakeholders. - Requirements: Basic Qualifications: PhD or Master's + 4+ years CS/CE/ML experience, programming in Java/C++/Python, experience with ML tech, RL, DL, CV, NLP. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: experience prioritizing/delivering projects, passion for responsibly building AI/ML, excellent communication, publication record. - Skills: maybe programming languages list? Could be under Requirements but we can separate. - Benefits: comprehensive benefits listed: health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, 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, parental leave. Also link to benefits page (but we should not include links? It's okay to keep but maybe remove? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Benefits link is not boilerplate; it's part of benefits. We can keep the description but maybe not the URL? It's okay to keep but it's not required. We'll keep the description. - Pay: base salary range: USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually. Also mention sign-on payments and RSUs. That's specific. - Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title. We must not include Job ID. We must not include EEO etc. Remove those lines. We must preserve all substantive info. Now produce HTML fragment: use

for section headings. Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

    for prose. We need to decide which content goes where. About the role: maybe a paragraph summarizing mission and role. Responsibilities: list bullet points. Requirements: list bullet points (basic qualifications). Qualifications: list bullet points (preferred qualifications). Skills: maybe list programming languages? Could be under Requirements but we can create Skills section with list of languages: Java, C++, Python. Benefits: list bullet points. Pay: maybe a paragraph with salary range and sign-on/RSU. Schedule: omit. We must not create empty sections. Let's craft. First, About the role: combine mission and what you will do. Paragraph: "We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a Scientist on this team, you will understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance; help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI; solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate; help develop our team; and liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI." That's a paragraph. Responsibilities: could be bullet list of the duties we just mentioned. But we already included them in paragraph. To avoid duplication, we could keep paragraph as About the role and then Responsibilities as bullet list of specific duties. However that would duplicate content. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. It's okay to have some overlap? Might be considered duplication but not prohibited. However better to split: About the role could be a brief overview, Responsibilities list the duties. But we need to ensure we don't lose any detail. We can keep overview in About the role and then list responsibilities in bullet form, but that repeats some details. Might be okay but could be considered summarizing away detail? Not really; we are just repeating. Safer to put all duties in Responsibilities and keep About the role as a short description of the team/mission. Let's do that. About the role: short paragraph about team mission. Responsibilities: bullet list of duties. Requirements: bullet list of basic qualifications. Qualifications: bullet list of preferred qualifications. Skills: bullet list of programming languages (Java, C++, Python) and maybe ML tech areas? But those are in requirements. Could put programming languages under Skills. Benefits: bullet list. Pay: paragraph. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Amazon is an equal opportunity employer..." etc. Remove those lines. Also remove "Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits." That's a link; could be considered navigation? It's a link to benefits page. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's a link. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The benefits link is not exactly navigation but could be considered navigation. Safer to omit the link and just keep the description. Also remove "If you have a disability..." accommodation lines. Remove "If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner." Remove "Amazon is an equal opportunity employer..." lines. Remove "Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians..." etc. Now produce HTML. Let's draft:

    About the role

    We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect.

    Responsibilities

    • Understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance.
    • Help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI.
    • Solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate.
    • Help develop the team.
    • Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI.

    Requirements

    • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
    • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
    • Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications.

    Qualifications

    • Experience prioritizing and delivering projects on time in a fast‑moving environment.
    • Passion for responsibly building and operating complex AI/ML systems, with consideration for controllability, privacy, security, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data and communicate complex concepts effectively to internal and external stakeholders.
    • Publication record on issues in responsible AI or related to responsible AI.

    Skills

    • Java
    • C++
    • Python

    Benefits

    • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, 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
    • Parental leave

    Pay

    The base salary range for this position is $142,800.00 – $193,200.00 USD annually (Seattle, WA). The total package includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

    We omitted Schedule. Check for any leftover boilerplate: none. Check for duplicate content: we have programming languages listed both in Requirements and Skills. That's duplication but maybe acceptable. Could we move programming languages to Skills only and remove from Requirements? Requirements currently includes "Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language." If we remove that, we lose that requirement detail. We could keep it in Requirements and not duplicate in Skills, or keep Skills as a summary of languages. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but might be considered redundant. However better to avoid duplication: we can keep programming languages in Requirements and not have a separate Skills section, or we can keep Skills but remove from Requirements. Which is more appropriate? The requirement is about programming languages; we could treat that as a skill. So we could move it to Skills and remove from Requirements. But then Requirements would lose the programming language experience. However we could keep a generic statement: "Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language." That's substantive. If we move it to Skills, we still preserve it. So we can have Skills section list languages, and Requirements section can omit that line. Let's adjust. Requirements: PhD/Master's + 4+ years experience; experience with ML tech areas. Skills: Java, C++, Python. Now check if we lost any other requirement: we still have the ML tech areas. Now ensure we haven't missed any other substantive info: The description also mentions "help define the strategies, priorities

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