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# Senior Applied Scientist, Generative AI Innovation Center

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $167,100.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Mxnet, Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, R (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, NumPy, Software Tools, Tensorflow, SciPy, Prompt Engineering, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Spark Mllib, Scikit Learn
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6b2e0cc57427d7b2

## About the Role

* 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
 * PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
 * Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
 * Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

 * Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
 * Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

## Description

As an Applied Scientist, you will

 * Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges
 * Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production
 * Help customers build their solutions through approaches such as prompt engineering, model selection, training or fine-tuning
 * Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction


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