Senior Applied Scientist, C360

Amazon • Seattle, WA

13d • $167,100 - $226,100 • Onsite

About The Position

We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You’ll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. We’re looking for scientists with deep LLM expertise to help us build the next generation of large language models. Our team focuses on post-training, including instruction tuning, reward modeling, reinforcement learning, and aligning LLMs with other embedding modalities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Nice To Haves

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

Responsibilities

• Design and run large-scale experiments
• Analyze model behavior
• Develop new training recipes that directly improve core capabilities like reasoning, personalized experiences, and other frontier paradigms that redefine what LLMs can do.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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