Principal Applied Scientist, Foundation AI Assets (FAI)

The Frontier AI Assets (FAI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning and generative AI background, to focus on the development of software development skills of Nova foundational models.

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization.

You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.

You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification, and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and playing a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop frontier quality assets for training and evaluating GenAI models. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship, and leadership development. You will be technically strong and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

About the team

The FAI team has the mission to push the envelope in GenAI with LLMs, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.

Our team is focused on pushing the boundaries of applied science at Amazon, building solutions that operate at massive scale and directly shape customer experiences. We value scientific depth, collaborative problem-solving, and a commitment to turning research into measurable impact.

We are investing in the next wave of scientific capabilities and are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to help define that trajectory. You will work alongside talented scientists, engineers, and product partners in an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and rewards bold ideas.