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Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Healthcare AI

Job ID: 2977577 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

At AWS Healthcare AI, we're revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI solutions that serve millions globally. As a pioneer in healthcare technology, we're building next-generation services that combine Amazon's world-class AI infrastructure with deep healthcare expertise. Our mission is to accelerate our healthcare businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Healthcare AI organization includes services such as HealthScribe, Comprehend Medical, HealthLake, and more.

Key job responsibilities

To be successful in this mission, we are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to lead pioneering research and development of new, highly confidential AI applications that re-imagine experiences for end-customers (e.g., consumers, patients), frontline workers (e.g., customer service agents, clinicians), and back-office staff (e.g., claims processing, medical coding). As a leading subject matter expert in NLU, deep learning, knowledge representation, foundation models, and reinforcement learning, you will guide a team of scientists to invent novel, generative AI-powered experiences. This role involves defining research directions, developing new ML techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring research translates to impactful products. You will be a hands-on technical innovator passionate about building scalable scientific solutions, setting standards for excellence, inventing scalable, scientifically sound solutions, defining evaluation methods, and leading complex reviews. This role wields significant influence across AWS, Amazon, and the global research community.

Minimum qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree with 6+ years of applied research experience
• 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or related
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
• Passion for applying groundbreaking AI to solve complex business challenges at a global scale

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, TensorFlow, numpy, scipy, etc.
• Experience in speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language processing systems
• Experience with large-scale machine learning systems, profiling, debugging, and understanding system performance and scalability
• Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Compensation ranges from $150,400 to $260,000 annually, depending on location, experience, and skills. Additional benefits and total compensation components may apply. For more info, visit this link . This position remains open until filled. Apply via our career site.