Senior Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a Senior 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. You will be at the heart of a
growing and exciting focus area for Amazon, working with other acclaimed
engineers and scientists.

The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in Large Language Models (LLMs)
and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our
customers.

Los Angeles 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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los
Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified
applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• Relevant Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) research experience with LLMs and multi-modalities
• Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• For system researchers, familiarity with deep learning compilers, auto-parallelization, and XLA/MLIR ecosystems

Responsibilities

• Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experience with GenAI models in this space.
• We work on these areas: - Scaling laws - Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, low-precision training - Optimization methods, learning objectives, curriculum design - Deep learning theories on efficient hyperparameter search and self-supervised learning - Learning objectives and reinforcement learning methods - Distributed training methods and solutions - AI-assisted research

Benefits

• 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree