Job Description

Job Overview

AWS Agentic AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who will partner with worldclass scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AIdriven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLMTraining team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies, including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer, that are transforming the software development landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and posttraining methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence.
• Invent and implement stateoftheart machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale.
• Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide.
• Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what is possible in intelligent code assistance.
• Publish and present pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP).
• Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems.

About the Team

The AWS Developer Agents and Experiences (DAE) team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We leverage the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to webbased tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency.

About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continuously innovate, which is why customers from startups to Global 500 companies trust our products and services to power their businesses.

Company Culture & Benefits

Inclusive Team Culture: Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including CORE and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to embrace our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth: We continuously raise our performance bar and provide endless knowledgesharing, mentorship, and careeradvancing resources to help you develop into a wellrounded professional.

Work/Life Balance: We value worklife harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve.

Hybrid Work: Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Masters degree and 10+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.>
• 8+ years of building models for business application experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at toptier peerreviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in any of the following areas: AI (NLP or multimodality models), Deep Learning, LLM model training, graph learning, software engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• First author publications at Tier1 ML conferences.

Legal & Equitable Hiring

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

LosAngeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the LosAngeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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