Applied Scientist, FinTelligence

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

59d • $142,800 - $193,200 • Onsite

About The Position

At Amazon's FinTech organization, we are building AI systems that process hundreds of millions of financial transactions, turn complex documents into actionable intelligence, and power autonomous agents that learn from every customer interaction. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to lead the development of generative AI applications that change how finance teams work, tackling problems at the intersection of large language models, multi-agent systems, and real-world financial operations.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• 3+ years of building models for business application experience

Nice To Haves

• PhD in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields
• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• Building AI systems that finance teams trust enough to rely on without manual review, where precision isn't a nice-to-have, it's a compliance requirement.
• Designing agents that learn from user corrections and get measurably better with every interaction, not just at the next model release.
• Solving inference at massive scale using tiered model architectures, intelligent routing, and small language models that deliver production-grade accuracy at a fraction of frontier model cost.
• Developing evaluation frameworks that catch quality regressions before customers do and gate every model change before it ships.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior