Amazon is looking to solve complex problems in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and develop Generative AI (GenAI) technologies to handle Amazon-scale use cases and improve customers' experiences.
Requirements
- Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers.
- Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.
- PhD with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Computational Cognitive Science (preferred).
- First author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences (preferred).
- Experience influencing decisions at an executive level (preferred).
- Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues (preferred).
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.
- Developing long-term strategies, persuading teams to adopt those strategies, proposing goals and delivering on them.
- Participating in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development.
- Building scalable science and engineering solutions, and serving as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
- Decomposing complex problems into straightforward solutions.
- Leading scientific reviews within the organization or at the location, and scrutinizing and reviewing experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures.
- Probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, and fostering shared understanding; aligning teams toward coherent strategies; and educating the scientific community on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.
Other
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers.
- Ability to work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff.
- Ability to adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions.
- Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service.
