Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

75d • $136,000 - $223,400

About The Position

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist to work on pre-training methodologies for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• 1+ years of building models for business application experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with generative deep learning models applicable to the creation of synthetic humans like CNNs, GANs, VAEs and NF.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related field.
• Strong experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks, including PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has experience with GenAI models in this space.
• Work on scaling laws.
• Develop hardware-informed efficient model architecture and low-precision training.
• Implement optimization methods, learning objectives, and curriculum design.
• Explore deep learning theories on efficient hyperparameter search and self-supervised learning.
• Work on learning objectives and reinforcement learning methods.
• Develop distributed training methods and solutions.
• Engage in AI-assisted research.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree