Applied Scientist II

The Amazon Smart Vehicles (ASV) science team is seeking a passionate and skilled applied scientist with extensive expertise in advanced LLM technologies. This role involves innovating in rapidly evolving areas of AI research, focusing on creating personalized services to enhance drivers' and passengers' experiences. Your work will aim to simplify their lives and keep them informed, entertained, productive, and safe on the road, with direct application to prominent Amazon products.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
• Work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs.
• Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD or master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, and high-performance computing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.
• Experience in professional software development.