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. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will be part of a team building Large Language Model (LLM)-based services with the focus on enhancing the developer experience in the Cloud. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS services such as AWS Cloud9, the AWS IDE Toolkit and AWS Bedrock. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand the challenges that developers face when building software today, and develop generalizable solutions.
- Identify pros and cons of different Generative AI techniques and decide if and how to employ them
- Research and implement novel approaches leveraging Generative AI for creating text and code.
- Collaborate with developers and pave the way towards bringing your solution into production systems. Lead cross team projects and ensure technical blockers are resolved.
- Communicate and document your research via publishing papers in external scientific venues.
About the team
You will work on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Next Gen Dev Experience (NGDE) team where we use generative AI and foundation models to reimagine the experience of builders on AWS.
About AWS
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Work/Life Balance
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Berlin, BE, DEU
- 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 in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience using Unix/Linux
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