Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Healthcare-AI

Amazon • Mountain View, CA

22d

About The Position

At AWS Healthcare AI, we're revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI
solutions that serve millions globally. As a pioneer in healthcare technology,
we're building next-generation services that combine Amazon's world-class AI
infrastructure with deep healthcare expertise. Our mission is to accelerate our
healthcare businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology
solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Healthcare AI
organization includes services such as HealthScribe, Comprehend Medical,
HealthLake, and more.

We're seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team working on our AI
driven clinical solutions that are transforming how clinicians interact with
patients and document care.

Key Job Responsibilities
To be successful in this mission, we are seeking an experienced Applied
Scientist to lead pioneering research and development of new, highly
confidential AI applications that re-imagine experiences for end-customers
(e.g., consumers, patients), frontline workers (e.g., customer service agents,
clinicians), and back-office staff (e.g., claims processing, medical coding). As
a leading subject matter expert in NLU, deep learning, knowledge representation,
foundation models, and reinforcement learning, you will guide a team of
scientists to invent novel, generative AI-powered experiences. This role
involves defining research directions, developing new ML techniques, conducting
rigorous experiments, and ensuring research translates to impactful products.
You will be a hands-on technical innovator who is passionate about building
scalable scientific solutions. You will set the standard for excellence, invent
scalable, scientifically sound solutions across teams, define evaluation
methods, and lead complex reviews. This role wields significant influence across
AWS, Amazon, and the global research community.

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

• lead pioneering research and development of new, highly confidential AI applications that re-imagine experiences for end-customers (e.g., consumers, patients), frontline workers (e.g., customer service agents, clinicians), and back-office staff (e.g., claims processing, medical coding)
• guide a team of scientists to invent novel, generative AI-powered experiences
• defining research directions
• developing new ML techniques
• conducting rigorous experiments
• ensuring research translates to impactful products
• set the standard for excellence
• invent scalable, scientifically sound solutions across teams
• define evaluation methods
• lead complex reviews

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