Data Scientist, Data and Machine Learning, WWPS US Federal

- Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience or Master's degree and 2 years of experience
- 5+ years of data scientist experience including 5+ years of programming in a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript) and 3+ years deploying, operating, and maintaining machine learning models
- 3+ years of experience building models for business applications
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing, neural deep learning methods and/or machine learning
- PhD or Masters degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, operations research, or in a highly quantitative field
- Practical experience in solving complex problems in an applied environment
- Hands on experience building models with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, Tensorflow, or JAX

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services (ProServe) is looking for Data Scientists who like helping U.S. Federal agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems using state-of-the-art language models in the cloud. AWS ProServe engages in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

At AWS, we're hiring experienced data scientists with a background in NLP, generative AI, and document processing to help our customers understand, plan, and implement best practices around leveraging these technologies within their AWS cloud environments. Our consultants deliver proof-of-concept projects, reusable artifacts, reference architectures, and lead implementation projects to assist organizations in harnessing the power of their data and unlocking the potential of advanced NLP and AI capabilities.

In this role, you will work closely with customers to deeply understand their data challenges and requirements, and design tailored solutions that best fit their use cases. You should have deep expertise in NLP/NLU, generative AI, and building data-intensive applications at scale. You should possess excellent business acumen and communication skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, develop key business questions, and translate requirements into actionable solutions. You will provide guidance and support to other engineers, sharing industry best practices and driving innovation in the field of data science and AI.

It is expected to work from one of the above locations (or customer sites) at least 1+ days in a week. This is not a remote position. You are expected to be in the office or with customers as needed.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

- Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges.

- Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide customer on adoption patterns and paths to production.

- Provide expertise and guidance in generative AI and document processing infrastructure, design, implementation, and optimization.

- Maintain domain knowledge and expertise in generative AI, NLP, and NLU.

- Architect and build large-scale solutions.
- Build technical solutions that are secure, maintainable, scalable, reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

- Identify and prepare metrics and reports for the internal team and for customers to delineate the value of their solution to the customer.

- Identify, mitigate and communicate risks related to solution and service constraints by making technical trade-offs.

- Participate in growing their team’s skills and help mentor internal and customer team members.

- Provide guidance on the people, organizational, security and compliance aspects of AI/ML transformations for the customer.

About the team
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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