Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Amazon•Sunnyvale, CA

52d

About The Position

As a Principal Scientist in the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences.

Requirements

5+ years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems experience
Graduate degree in with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science
7+ years of combined academic and research experience
Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences
Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Nice To Haves

PhD with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Computational Cognitive Science
10+ years of combined academic and research experience
First author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences
Functional thought leader and sought after for key tech decisions
Experience influencing decisions at an executive level
Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues
Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers

Responsibilities

defining key research directions
adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques
conducting rigorous experiments
publishing results
ensuring that research is translated into practice
develop long-term strategies
persuade teams to adopt those strategies
propose goals and deliver on them
participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development
building scalable science and engineering solutions
serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance)