We are recruiting an Applied Scientist (fixed-term contract) to innovate next-generation scientific methodologies for Amazon CloudWatch, AWS's primary monitoring and observability platform. This core service provides critical monitoring capabilities to millions of customers operating at cloud scale. This is a high visibility and high impact role that works on highly strategic projects in the AI/ML and Analytics space, interacting with all levels of AWS leadership. We are developing solutions that not only surface the what but also the why and how to fix it, without requiring operators to have extensive domain knowledge and technical expertise to efficiently troubleshoot and remediate incidents. Using decades of AWS operational excellence coupled with the advances in LLMs and Gen-AI technologies, we are transforming the very core of how customers can effortlessly interact with our offerings to build and operate their applications in the cloud. We are hiring to grow our team, and are looking for well-rounded applied scientists with backgrounds in machine learning, foundation models, and natural language processing. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and product managers to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, mission-driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!
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Key job responsibilities
Research and development of algorithms that improve training of foundation models across pre-training, multitask learning, supervised finetuning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Research and development of novel approaches for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and provide intelligent insights from vast amounts of monitoring and observability data.
Collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product managers across the CloudWatch team as well as directly with customers.
Lead key science initiatives in strategic investment areas of AI/ML/LLM Ops and Observability.
Be an industry thought leader representing Amazon at top-tier scientific conferences.
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
- Experience in building models for business application
- 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
- Experience in professional software development
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