Most AI assistants today start every conversation from scratch, forgetting what they learned yesterday about developer's codebase, patterns, and the way they like to work. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of scientists and engineers to change that, and we are hiring an Applied Scientist to build the systems that let our AI development tools accumulate knowledge over time and get genuinely better the more you use them. You will help create generative AI technologies, including Kiro IDE and CLI, that are transforming how software gets built.
You will take on some of the hardest open problems in machine learning: how a model keeps learning without forgetting what it already knew, how to store and retrieve the right memory at the right moment, and how to personalize the experience for each developer and team without starting over every time. Your work will reach millions of developers rather than sit in a paper, and you will own a research direction end to end rather than share a sliver of attention across many priorities.
Key job responsibilities
- Push the boundaries of continual and lifelong learning for large language models specialized in code intelligence
- Design memory-augmented architectures and retrieval mechanisms that let the assistant consolidate, recall, and personalize knowledge over time
- Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale
- Deploy products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide
- Publish and present your work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP)
- Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually