Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

We are seeking an Applied Scientist II to work on development of an AI-based data intelligence and classification platform that will redefine how security and privacy assessments and enforcement are conducted at scale. This mission-critical platform will leverage AI-driven autonomous agents to conduct proactive intelligent security operations across the company.

The platform will integrate deeply with internal security privacy engineering and cloud-native tools to provide self-serve automated insights verifications and enforcement mechanisms. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI/ML LLMs and distributed cloud infrastructure as well as thought leadership to drive alignment across multiple teams customers and business units.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven security and privacy assurance at an enterprise scale defining standards influencing company-wide security posture and leading technical innovation at the highest level.


Key job responsibilities
* Architect and define the next-generation data classification and search matching platform leading the technical strategy for AI-driven security automation across applied science and engineering teams
* Build on multi-agent LLM framework and influence your organizations in adopting the promising approaches
* Develop a highly scalable traditional ML-based as well as LLM-based intelligent security agent framework that enables internal teams to automate processing of structured and unstructured data
* Combine depth and breadth of domain expertise and provide technical leadership to the entire team while also doing hands-on work by diving deep into details to diagnose complex system performance problems.

About the team
The Data Categorization team helps Amazonians understand their data and govern it at scale and ensures experiences delivered by Amazon to our customers uphold our high security and privacy standards. The science team harnesses AI to strengthen Amazons privacy and security posture more efficiently and effectively.

- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 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 building speech recognition machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects)
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience in professional software development

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 171600.00 - 222200.00 USD annually