Amazon

Sr. Principal Scientist, Amazon Health Science & Analytics

Amazon$276K — $350K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS/PhD in computer vision, machine learning, computer science, or related fields.
  • Proven track record of deploying large scale AI/ML products.
  • Over 10 years of experience in AI domains.
  • 5+ years of tuning and optimizing language/multimodal models.
  • 5+ years of experience advising engineering and scientific teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement a long-term ML strategy focused on healthcare applications.
  • Architect a domain-specific healthcare foundation model and high-reliability inference system.
  • Lead the integration of frontier models in compliance with health regulations.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and clinical teams to ensure AI reliability and safety.
  • Transform technical vision into customer-facing features that are monetizable.

Benefits

  • Inclusive culture promoting diverse perspectives
  • Workplace accommodations available for those with disabilities
  • Comprehensive medical and financial benefits offered
Full Job Description
We are looking for a senior AI/ML researcher who can architect and guide a long-horizon ML strategy for a healthcare-focused organization building a durable, domain-specific healthcare foundation model and a high-reliability inference system. This person will define the technical vision for how our organization should leverage frontier models, when and how to build proprietary domain models, and how to sequence capability development into monetizable, customer-facing features while working high quality, safety, and regulatory constraints expected within healthcare. This individual will serve as a senior technical advisor on frontier-model integration, data strategy, evaluation and safety architecture. They will partner closely across product, engineering, clinical, and compliance teams to ensure that the AI system is safe, reliable, economically viable, and capable of compounding differentiation over time.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience training or adapting large-scale models (LLMs, multimodal, or MoE systems), with strong grounding in distributed training, RLHF/DPO, retrieval and knowledge integration, evaluation harness design, and ML systems engineering.

Demonstrated experience shipping ML capabilities in high-stakes or regulated domains-healthcare, autonomy, finance, or large enterprise platforms-is highly valuable, as is familiarity with clinical data, workflow constraints, or ISO-aligned or internationally acknowledged safety practices and standards. This hire must combine research depth, pragmatic product sense, and systems leadership to build a capability that endures for many years.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- MS/PhD in computer vision, machine learning, computer science, or related quantitative and computationally intensive disciplines.

- Proven track record in shipping large scale AI/ML products.

- 10+ years working in related AI domains.

- 5+ Language/multimodal model tuning and optimization experience.

- 5+ years of advising engineering and science teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology etc.

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 - 276,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually

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