Senior Applied Scientist, Generative AI Innovation Center

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and engineers to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges
• Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, assist in the implementation of generative AI solutions, and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production
• Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization
• Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Python to build, train, and evaluate models
• 5+ years of experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing
• 2+ years of experience with design, development, and optimization of generative AI solutions, algorithms, or technologies
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Nice to Have

• 2+ years of experience with design, deployment, and evaluation of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents and tools and orchestration approaches
• Hands-on experience with model customization techniques such as fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and LLM-as-judge evaluation
• Experience with optimization of models on GPUs, Amazon Silicon, or TPUs
• 2+ years of experience with open source frameworks for building applications powered by LLMs like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and/or similar tools
• Experience building generative AI applications on AWS using services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker
• Strong communication skills, with attention to detail and ability to convey rigorous technical concepts to non-experts

Qualifications

• Educational background including PhD or Master's degree with relevant experience

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary ranging from $150,400/year to $260,000/year depending on geographic location and experience
• Potential for equity, sign-on payments, and other compensation as part of a total package
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits
• Workplace accommodations and adjustments available during the application and onboarding process