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Amazon Applied Scientist II, Amazon Generative Intelligence (AGI) in Bengaluru, India

Description

The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team in India is seeking a talented, self-driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms within the realm of Generative AI.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML for GenAI.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and execute technically rigorous AI projects.

  • Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements and deadlines.

  • Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams.

  • Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility.

  • Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute

  • Support on-call activities for critical issues

Basic Qualifications:

  • Master’s or PhD in computer science, statistics or a related field

  • 2-7 years experience in deep learning, machine learning, and data science.

  • Proficiency in coding and software development, with a strong focus on machine learning frameworks.

  • Experience in Python, or another language; command line usage; familiarity with Linux and AWS ecosystems.

  • Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc.

  • Excellent communication skills (written & spoken) and ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, cross-functional team setting.

  • Papers published in AI/ML venues of repute

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Track record of diving into data to discover hidden patterns and conducting error/deviation analysis

  • Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations

  • The motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

  • Exceptional level of organization and strong attention to detail

  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru, KA, IND

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

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