Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

We are seeking an Applied Scientist II to work on development of an AI-based data intelligence and classification platform that will redefine how security and privacy assessments and enforcement are conducted at scale. This mission-critical platform will leverage AI-driven autonomous agents to conduct proactive, intelligent security operations across the company.

The platform will integrate deeply with internal security, privacy, engineering, and cloud-native tools to provide self-serve, automated insights, verifications, and enforcement mechanisms. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI/ML, LLMs, and distributed cloud infrastructure, as well as thought leadership to drive alignment across multiple teams, customers, and business units.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven security and privacy assurance at an enterprise scale, defining standards, influencing company-wide security posture, and leading technical innovation at the highest level.

Key job responsibilities

• Architect and define the next-generation data classification and search matching platform, leading the technical strategy for AI-driven security automation across applied science and engineering teams
• Build on multi-agent LLM framework, and influence your organizations in adopting the promising approaches
• Develop a highly scalable, traditional ML-based as well as LLM-based intelligent security agent framework that enables internal teams to automate processing of structured and unstructured data
• Combine depth and breadth of domain expertise and provide technical leadership to the entire team while also doing hands-on work by diving deep into details to diagnose complex system performance problems.

About the team

The Data Categorization team helps Amazonians understand their data and govern it at scale and ensures experiences delivered by Amazon to our customers uphold our high security and privacy standards. The science team harnesses AI to strengthen Amazon's privacy and security posture more efficiently and effectively.