GenAIIC MENAT Lead, AWS Generative AI Innovation Center

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics/statistics, computer engineering or related technical discipline
- Several years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- Several years of technical management experience, including a minimum of 1 year in a technical management role in a customer-facing or consulting organization
- 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
- Ability to demonstrate senior stakeholder management skills and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience with fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect and remove bias in ML/AI systems
- Hands on experience with deep learning (e.g., CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformer)
- Prior experience in training and fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Deep expertise in generative AI and hands on experience of deploying and hosting Large Foundational Models
- Experience and deep knowledge of AWS and AWS AI/ML services and experience as a pre-sales, customer-facing field development manager
Amazon launched the Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) in Jun 2023 to help AWS customers accelerate the use of generative AI to solve business and operational problems and promote innovation in their organization. This is a team of strategists, data scientists, engineers, and solution architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI.(https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/6/aws-announces- generative-ai-innovation-center).

We’re looking for Data Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with AI/ML scientists, engineers, and architects to Research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI algorithms 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

- Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholder

- Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product direction

About the team
The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train or fine tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The Generative AI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently.

Diverse Experiences
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