Sr. Applied Scientist, 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.

About the team

The Automated Reasoning in Identity (ARI) team is growing fast. It works on applying automated reasoning techniques to services within AWS's Identity organization, building on initial successes of the Zelkova and Access Analyzer projects. The reach of AR within Identity is growing, with more scientists joining all the time.

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
• 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