Research Engineer , Quick Science

Come join the Quick Science team in building the next generation enterprise AI assistant.

Quick is AWSs enterprise generative AI assistant that helps users answer questions summarize documents generate content take actions and automate workflows using information including structured and unstructured data across enterprise systems. As a key member of this team you will lead research and development efforts in generative AI and Agentic AI to enable intelligent agents that perform complex reasoning automate multi-step workflows and make enterprise users significantly more productive. Youll work on agentic AI systems that scale efficiently to millions of users. This role blends technical leadership hands-on innovation and deep collaboration with engineering teams to bring research into production.



Key job responsibilities
A Research Engineer in the AWS Agentic AI team has the following responsibilities:

* Define design and lead the development of tools that accelerate the science experimentation and delivery process
* Design and guide the science teams implementation enabling Science proof of concepts that help decide the ultimate science solution strategy algorithm workflow and the individual science components that become a release candidate
* Tool development: build and improve toolings that applied scientists would need including scalable science experiment frameworks low-latency testing pipelines data collection/annotation/evaluation web applications.
* Expedite science to production: bridge the gap between science and engineering teams help to investigate and mitigate gaps between science and engineering pipeline. Help to merge both pipelines to one or making components within the two interchangeable. Work towards a fast science-to-production paradigm.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques
- Knowledge of ML frameworks including JAX PyTorch vLLM SGLang Dynamo TorchXLA and TensorRT
- Strong understanding of agentic architectures autonomous systems or task orchestration.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco 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 San Francisco - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually