Sr. Applied AI - Data Scientist, Amazon Nova

DESCRIPTION

Are you a AI-focused data scientist that wants to think fast, dive deep, and build? We are seeking a data scientists to join our the Amazon Nova Solutions team to work with Foundation Model (FM) teams alongside internal and external Generative AI customers to customize foundation models and build the applications of the future.

In this role, you will be the voice of the builder, with ownership for working alongside Amazon businesses to develop GenAI solutions that deliver their immediate business value and realize the future of customer experience. You will help your customers understand best practices and develop new best-practice patterns as you encounter new problem spaces. With your day to day focus on the builder, you will be expected to provide insights to product, science, and engineering on how customers build with our FM's and how we can improve. You will be empowered to invent on behalf of our customers and advocate for their needs throughout design, build, and launch of next gen FM's.

You must have deep technical experience working with technologies related to large language models including LLM architectures, model evaluation, and fine-tuning techniques. You should be proficient with design, deployment, and evaluation of foundation models - including evaluation dataset design, metric design, implementation, failure analysis. Ideal candidate has hands on experience with both AI Frameworks (e.g. Strands, LangGraph, CrewAI, DSPy) and model customization tools including PyTorch, TensorBoard, MLFlow/W&B, Bedrock, and SageMaker

This position has a high level of visibility, so you will need to be able to communicate clearly and compellingly at all levels of the company. Additionally, you will be responsible for measuring business impact by diving deep into metrics and customer inputs. You should have a positive attitude and strong work ethic; you will work fast and smart, and adapt and iterate quickly.

Key job responsibilities
- Customer Advisor- Implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning solutions under Gen AI. You will build prototypes, PoCs, and explore new solutions. You will interact closely with our customers.
- Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS GenAI services and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, white-papers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
- Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services with Amazon Nova FM's, AWS Bedrock, and other AWS GenAI capabilities.
- Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems and help them implement durable GenAI systems.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of amazon Nova FM ecosystem and showcase the art of possible.
- Drive evaluation strategy, metric design, and evaluation data design for real-world use cases
- Drive deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create solutions built with Amazon Nova FM's
- Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, workshops, demos and proof of concepts.
- Build deep relationships with customer engineering, product, and science leaders.




About the team
Amazon Nova Applied AI Solutions Team serves as a bridge between Foundation Model science, engineering, and product teams and the internal Amazon teams using these models to deliver business value to Amazon's customers. We help customers build GenerativeAI applications and apply the learning from these engagemetns to help make the Foundation Models better every day.