Job Information
Amazon Applied Scientist-LLM, Amazon in Santa Clara, California
Description
Do you want to be part of the team developing the future technology that impacts the customer experience of ground-breaking products? Then come join us and make history.
We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a background in AI, Gen AI, Machine Learning, NLP, to help build LLM solutions for Amazon core shopping.
Our team works on a variety of projects, including state of the art generative AI, LLM finetuning, alignment, prompt engineering, benchmarking solutions.
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist will be expected to work on state of the art technologies which will result in papers publications, however you will not be only theorizing about the algorithms, but you will also have the opportunity to implement them and see how they behave in the field.
This is an incredible opportunity to validate your research on one of the most exciting Amazon AI products, where assumptions can be tested against real business scenarios and supported by an abundance of data.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Santa Clara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse
Advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
Preferred Qualifications
Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience in LLM finetuning, pretraining, testing, and prompt engineering.
Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.