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Earlier this year, eight scientists were named as 2021 Amazon AI4Science Fellows at Caltech. The program is a result of a collaboration between Caltech and Amazon focused on supporting the AI4Science initiative, and its goal of sharing advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Caltech names eight AI4Science fellows supported by Amazon

Amazon is collaborating with Caltech to support research, education, and outreach programs that help build bridges between AI and other areas of science and engineering.

By Douglas Gantenbein
April 30, 2021
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In January, eight scientists were named as 2021 Amazon AI4Science Fellows at Caltech, the world-renowned science and engineering research institution based in Pasadena, Calif. The Fellows program is a result of a collaboration between Caltech and Amazon around supporting the AI4Science initiative and its goal of sharing the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to benefit all branches of scientific and engineering research.

There’s a huge level of demand among graduate students and post-doctoral scholars across campus to leverage the techniques and advantages afforded by using AI and machine learning in their own research.
Yisong Yue

“Amazon’s gift will have a real impact on our program,” said Yisong Yue, professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and co-founder of the AI4Science initiative. “There’s a huge level of demand among graduate students and post-doctoral scholars across campus to leverage the techniques and advantages afforded by using AI and machine learning in their own research.”

“Caltech is uniquely placed to be a leader in AI4science given its interdisciplinary collaborations and small size,” added Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and co-founder of the AI4Science initiative. “We thank Amazon for supporting this groundbreaking initiative.”

For those students specializing in data sciences, Yue said, “it allows them to be exposed to the datasets and research questions faced by scientists in other fields, as well as in companies such as Amazon, and to push the boundaries of existing AI and machine-learning algorithms to effectively address these questions.”

“At Amazon, we strongly believe that AI should be an integral part of all science, not just computer science,” said Marzia Polito, AWS senior manager of applied science. “We are building products supporting the use of AI in many fields of science and many science-based business applications. We are thrilled to collaborate with Caltech, a world-class institution doing ground-breaking science work, and we are honored to have a chance to contribute to their amazing results. There could be no better evidence toward a future where AI and science thrive together.”

This year’s cohort of Fellows comes from the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, reflecting the broad range of research being explored. The Fellows will apply cutting-edge ML and AI techniques to research areas ranging from neural prosthetics and theoretical chemistry, to the human microbiome.

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Earlier this year, eight scientists were named as 2021 Amazon AI4Science Fellows at Caltech. The program is a result of a collaboration between Caltech and Amazon focused on supporting the AI4Science initiative, and its goal of sharing advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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The Amazon AI4Science Fellows and research areas are:

  • Carmen Amo Alonso, a graduate student pursuing her PhD in control and dynamical systems in the lab of John Doyle, Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering, is studying the application of AI to large-scale complex systems in areas as diverse as understanding the gut microbiome to designing optimized “smart” grids.
  • Sara Beery, a graduate student pursuing her PhD in computing and mathematical sciences in the lab of Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, is developing approaches to collect global-scale, real-time ecological data for conservation purposes.
  • Charles Guan, a graduate student pursuing his PhD in bioengineering in the lab of Richard Andersen, James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center Leadership Chair, and director of the T&C Brain-Machine Interface Center, is developing decoding algorithms for neural prostheses and studying the neural basis of movement.
  • Kadina Johnston, a graduate student pursuing her PhD in bioengineering in the lab of Nobel-prize winner Frances Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, is applying deep learning techniques to the directed evolution approach for enzyme engineering.
  • Nikola Kovachki, a graduate student pursuing his PhD in applied and computational mathematics in the lab of Andrew Stuart, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, is using deep learning techniques for solving partial differential equations, which has applications for climate modeling, understanding turbulent flow of fluids, and a wide range of materials science problems.
  • Zhuoran Qiao, a graduate student pursuing his PhD in chemistry in the lab of professor of chemistry Tom Miller, is developing physics-based machine learning methods for studying problems in complex chemical systems.    
  • Guannan Qu, a post-doctoral scholar working under the supervision of Steven Low, Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, and Adam Wierman, professor of computing and mathematical sciences and director of Information Science and Technology, is developing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches that are scalable, distributed, and have provable guarantees such that they will be usable for safety-critical applications.
  • He Sun, a post-doctoral scholar working under the supervision of Katie Bouman, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy and Rosenberg Scholar, is developing new machine learning algorithms that can improve current computational imaging approaches.

The diverse interests of the Fellows reflect a trend in AI and machine learning that emphasizes cross-disciplinary research and is in line with the AI4Science focus.

“Today we need students who are experts in their own fields, but who also can communicate across different fields,” Yue said. “Effective communication requires a mix of fundamentally sound rigorous thinking coupled with a broad perspective on how to apply that approach to wide range of domains, in order to reveal and distill the core technical challenges that underlie the pressing problems facing science and engineering research today.”

The AI4Science Fellows program is one component within a larger collaboration between Amazon and Caltech. In the area of AI4Science, Amazon is also providing funds for Caltech’s Carver Mead New Adventures Fund, AWS credits for research projects across campus, and support for AI4Science events to build community and share research results.

Beyond the AI4Science initiative, Caltech and Amazon are collaborating in a number of other areas. A group of scientists within AWS’s Amazon Rekognition team is a part of Caltech’s Innovation Center, a building near campus that houses Caltech corporate collaborators and startups. In 2019, AWS and Caltech also announced a collaboration around quantum computing, which will include the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, set to open later this year.

“Caltech prides itself as being an incubator for concepts like AI4Science and next-generation technologies like quantum computing,” said Caltech’s Kaushik Bhattacharya, vice provost for Research and Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science. “Our small size, our relentless focus on the most challenging scientific questions — along with our close-knit community that is interdisciplinary by design — encourage and enable us to always be pioneering in the application of tools and techniques from other fields to all areas of science and engineering. To help make sure our findings have impacts beyond academia, we greatly value our collaborations with partners like Amazon.”

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Applied Scientist
US, TX, Austin
Job summaryMachine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.The Amazon ML Solutions Lab team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of machine learning to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help develop solutions by pushing the envelope in Time Series, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV).As a ML Solutions Lab Applied Scientist, you are proficient in designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data and develop novel models to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. You will apply classical ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others.The primary responsibilities of this role are to:· Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML/DL models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industries· Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them· Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithmsThis position requires travel of up to 25%.About UsInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Applied Scientist
US, MI, Detroit
Job summaryMachine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.The Amazon ML Solutions Lab team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of machine learning to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help develop solutions by pushing the envelope in Time Series, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV).As a ML Solutions Lab Applied Scientist, you are proficient in designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data and develop novel models to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. You will apply classical ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others.The primary responsibilities of this role are to:· Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML/DL models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industries· Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them· Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithmsThis position requires travel of up to 25%.About UsInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Applied Scientist, TMT - Outbound
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAre you passionate about big data and machine learning? Do you enjoy solving complex analytical problems, build predictive analytics models and develop insights and recommendations at web scale? Do you want to make an impact in Amazon’s multi-billion-dollar Messaging business? Amazon’s Outbound Communication Services, OCS, owns foundational systems that power all of Amazon's customer-facing communication on Email, SMS, Push channels, and other emerging messaging applications. In 2020, we sent over 100 billion messages to our global customers on these channels! OCS builds self-governing and message-optimizing engines that leverage integrated Machine Learning, massive data processing and adaptive algorithms to deliver the best messages to Amazon’s customers, over the best channel, and at the right time. Our systems ensure best-in-class engagement experience, which spans transactional and marketing communications. We're building a top-notch team of engineers, applied scientists, data engineers, and engineering leaders. The problems we face are complex and interesting including information engineering, data mining of Big Data sets, and governing real-time messages at scale. We build large scale, distributed systems using multiple AWS services that we designed from the ground up.We are looking for a strong Applied Scientist to work backwards from customers, create models and develop insights, deliver impact, and drive growth of the OCS worldwide. As a Senior Applied Scientist on our team, you will be working with business stakeholders, product/program managers, developers and executives to deeply understand customer problems and priorities. You will form hypotheses, analyze the corpus of Outbound and Amazon data using statistical methods, build predictive models, generate recommendations to address a range of problems to optimize the value of the messages we send to our customers. These span developing insights on customer engagement trends, building models to inform message rates, channel selection, and defining segmentation for marketing, etc. Your expertise will enable us to enable new customer experiences while maintaining best-in-class customer experience. You will be comfortable with big data systems, intimately familiar with advanced machine learning and statistical methods, and experienced in applying these to solve business problems. You will have a strong bias towards customer obsession and delivering results while dealing with ambiguity in fast-paced dynamic environments.Roles and Responsibilities· Work with business teams, product/program managers, engineers and leadership to identify and prioritize customer and business problems· Translate these problems into specific analytical questions and form hypotheses that can be answered with available data using statistical methods or identify additional data needed in the master datasets to fill any gaps· Perform hand-on data analyses and modeling with huge datasets to develop insights and recommendations to inform decisions across the program· Design and run A/B experiments to validate the hypotheses and evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various stakeholders· Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable solutions and new capabilities· Help on projects of high visibility across the organization and deliver business impact
Applied Scientist, Alexa AI
US, MA, Cambridge
Job summaryThe Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. Our mission is to push the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Audio Signal Processing, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.
Principal Research Scientist, Modeling and Optimization
US, WA, Bellevue
Job summaryAmazon’s Modeling and Optimization Team is looking for a senior science leader (Principal Research Scientist) to drive the development and optimization of the most complex transportation and fulfillment network in the world.The team is responsible for optimizing the global transportation and fulfillment network for Amazon.com and ensuring that the company is able to deliver our customers’ products to them as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. We design the network that delivers packages from fulfillment centers (FCs) to end customers, through both Amazon’s internal network as well as external partners, using ground and air methods. Optimizing these package flows requires designing the structure and operating parameters of the network, optimizing operations such as linehaul movements and sortation scheduling, and making the right capital investments in technology, buildings and equipment. It also requires partnering with peer research and product teams that drive inventory placement, selection, and forecasting, and incorporating information and algorithmic interfaces with those systems.We are seeking an experienced multi-disciplinary science leader, to lead the science development on projects in both developing algorithmic tools and driving long-term network strategy. In this role, you will work with and advise other research scientists in the team, develop your own scientific approaches, and partner with software and product teams as they deploy algorithmic solutions to our stakeholders. You will also partner with business leaders on projects that evaluate long-term strategic network choices, and present strategy papers to our senior-most leaders to drive long-term impact.To accomplish this, we expect you to have a strong research background in at least one of the following disciplines: operations research, computer science, operations management, statistics, or applied mathematics. You should also have business domain knowledge in transportation and distribution operations, along with some knowledge of inventory management theory and practice. You should have a strong publication record that demonstrates technical depth as well as consideration of practical aspects in your work. Experience partnering with companies on high-stakes R&D or consulting is a plus, but not a necessity.
Applied Scientist - AWS ML Platforms
US, VA, Arlington
Job summaryInterested in machine learning and AI? Can you envision a future where technology is driven primarily by smarter machines?The mission of AWS AI is to make machine learning easy, fast, and universal across all of our customers. Our world class platform provides the services that runs 85% of all on-cloud machine learning through performance optimizations, machine learning tools, and SDKs to democratize machine learning. Our customers include scientists, data analysts, and ML engineers all building and deploying models through either SageMaker or self-managed instances on EC2/EKS.The AWS Machine Learning Services group in Amazon AI is seeking applicants for an applied scientist position in the areas of fairness, bias, explainability, privacy, and model understanding in ML. As an applied scientist in AWS AI, you will be driving many scientific breakthroughs to help our customers understand and trust ML-based outcomes, and also working with software engineers to deploy these solutions to AWS customers. You will be working on the ML platforms and services that power over 85% of machine learning in the cloud, and help make machine learning fast, accessible, universal, and trustworthy for all our customers.We look for candidates with PhD in a relevant technical field (such as Algorithms, Machine Learning, AI, and Mathematics), preferably with interest / experience in explainability, fairness, privacy, and model understanding. We also encourage graduating PhD students as well as recent PhD graduates to apply. You will be working closely with software engineers so experience with cloud systems is a benefit. Our customers are deeply technical and the solutions we build for them are strongly coupled to technical feasibility. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. Ownership, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.For more information about AWS AI team, please see https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning and https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker.About UsInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Data Scientist, EU SPTL
LU, Luxembourg
Job summaryWould you like to pioneer new technologies in machine learning while leveraging Amazon's heterogenous data sources and large-scale computing resources?As a data scientist, your work will help Amazon raise the bar on customer obsession by providing our Sellers with the best customized experiences.We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to join us to build industry-leading technology.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Science work, business analytics and have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies while dealing with ambiguities in sourcing processes. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges. Further, you must have the ability to build and communicate compelling value propositions, and work across the organization to achieve consensus. This role requires a strong passion for customers, a high level of comfort navigating ambiguity, and a keen sense of ownership and drive to deliver results.
Data Scientist
US, WA, Seattle
Come join the AWS Marketplace Team in our mission to change the way enterprise software is bought and sold! AWS Marketplace enables software sellers to reach all AWS customers, and it enables software buyers to easily discover, purchase and consume software. Our goals include enriching the platform to support more diverse selection, improving buyer and seller experience, and supporting co-sell opportunities between AWS and our partners. Our vision is to make AWS Marketplace the one stop shop for buying and selling software - we're building the app store for AWS.A day in the lifeIn this role, you’ll be utilizing your creative and critical problem solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation. You will improve and innovate on existing high impact analytical projects. Your outputs will focus on our team’s critical goals and help influence decision makers.About the hiring groupAbout UsInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.Job responsibilitiesWe are looking for a Data Scientist to join our rapidly growing Seattle team. As a Data Scientist, you are able to use a range of data science methodologies to solve challenging business problems when the solution is unclear. You have a combination of business acumen, broad knowledge of statistics, deep understanding of ML algorithms, and an analytical mindset. You thrive in a collaborative environment, and are passionate about learning. Our team utilizes a variety of AWS tools such as Redshift, Sagemaker, Lambda, S3, and EC2 with a variety of skillsets in Tabular ML, NLP, Forecasting, Probabilistic ML and Causal ML. You will bring knowledge in many of these domains along with your own specialties and skillsets.
Sr. Machine Learning University Applied Scientist
DE, BE, Berlin
Machine Learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.Machine Learning University’s (MLU) mission is to teach people to apply ML to business and operational challenges. In service of this goal, we are growing our presence outside the US, and are looking to hire in EMEA region. We believe strongly that a practical knowledge of ML can be taught broadly, and is a key skill for many builders to learn. Come join Amazon’s Machine Learning University and help spread knowledge of ML!We have built a team of passionate science educators with the demonstrated ability to explain ML to an audience of technical professionals, enhance curriculum, and collaborate with scientists across the company. You will teach practitioners how to train, tune, and deploy ML models to solve challenges in customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analtyics, and event detection among others. Practical experience with machine learning is key to ensure content is up-to-date, practical and engaging. This is a full-time role where you will constantly be challenged to learn and be curious about ML.As a Sr. MLU Applied Scientist on our team, you would have the following responsibilities:· Teach customers directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them· Develop open-source curriculum designed to provide a practical knowledge of ML. This includes lectures, videos, demos, and coding notebook assignments (find an article about our largest release here: https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/machine-learning-course-free-online-from-amazon-machine-learning-university)· Collaborate with scientists across Amazon to continuously understand and integrate advances in ML into the curriculum· Help drive high-level curriculum decisions to ensure alignment with students’ needs and the state-of-the-art domains of advancement in ML· Consult with customers on model development and deployment best practices by using computer science fundamentals· Engage in the interview process and otherwise develop, grow, and mentor junior scientistsThis team is comprised of Data Scientists, Applied Scientists and Instructional Designers to create first-in-class courses and learning assets in practical ML. The role may require travel up to 40% of the time (pending safety protocols and travel restrictions). We are currently recruiting for talented individuals for this role in the following cities: London, Cambridge, Tuebingen, Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, or Gdansk. Let’s bring ML to everyone and demystify and democratize technology together!Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We Hire and Develop the best so you can expect support in advancing your career ambitions and projects which will help you grow and develop your skills.
Machine Learning University Applied Scientist
DE, BE, Berlin
Machine Learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.Machine Learning University’s (MLU) mission is to teach people to apply ML to business and operational challenges. In service of this goal, we are growing our presence outside the US, and are looking to hire in EMEA region. We believe strongly that a practical knowledge of ML can be taught broadly, and is a key skill for many builders to learn. Come join Amazon’s MLU and help spread knowledge of ML!We have built a team of passionate science educators with the demonstrated ability to explain ML to an audience of technical professionals, enhance curriculum, and collaborate with scientists across the company. You will teach practitioners how to train, tune, and deploy ML models to solve challenges in customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analtyics, and event detection among others. Practical experience with machine learning is key to ensure content is up-to-date, practical and engaging. This is a full-time role where you will constantly be challenged to learn and be curious about ML.As a MLU Applied Scientist on our team, you would have the following responsibilities:· Teach customers directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them· Develop open-source curriculum designed to provide a practical knowledge of ML. This includes lectures, videos, demos, and coding notebook assignments (find an article about our largest release here: https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/machine-learning-course-free-online-from-amazon-machine-learning-university)· Collaborate with scientists across Amazon to continuously understand and integrate advances in ML into the curriculum· Help drive high-level curriculum decisions to ensure alignment with students’ needs and the state-of-the-art domains of advancement in ML· Consult with customers on model development and deployment best practices by using computer science fundamentalsThis team is comprised of Data Scientists, Applied Scientists and Instructional Designers to create first-in-class courses and learning assets in practical ML. The role may require travel up to 40% of the time (pending safety protocols and travel restrictions). We are currently recruiting for talented individuals for this role in the following cities: London, Cambridge, Tuebingen, Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, or Gdansk. Let’s bring ML to everyone and demystify and democratize technology together!Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We Hire and Develop the best so you can expect support in advancing your career ambitions and projects which will help you grow and develop your skills.
Applied Scientist - AWS Cryptography, AWS Cryptography
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryThe AWS Cryptography Group is looking for an Applied Scientist with knowledge of cryptographic computing technologies such as privacy preserving machine learning, fully and partially homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, private information retrieval, and related technologies. You will use this knowledge to conceptualize how this technology can be integrated into internal infrastructure and public AWS services, develop prototypes, and provide customers with world-class security. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of cryptography, the ability to prototype solutions, and a passion to realize these technologies in AWS products and services. We encourage research and publication of results that apply to our customers most complex initiatives.We are seeking a candidate who is innovative, looking for new ideas everywhere. They should think big, and have bold ideas for new ways to serve customers.About UsAWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.A Culture of InclusionHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceWe put a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We provide both the opportunity to be mentored by seasoned leaders and to mentor junior researchers. We care about your career growth and strive to give you challenging responsibilities that will help you develop into a better-rounded applied scientist and give you the opportunity to advance your career to the next level.Learn more about Amazon on our Day 1 Blog: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/
Applied Scientist, LakeFormation
US, VA, Arlington
Job summaryThe Group:The Database Services group provides rapidly growing, industry acclaimed cloud services in areas of big data platforms, data warehouses, analytics, and operational databases. The group is at the forefront of innovation in these areas producing world-class cloud services, which while large profitable businesses, are also in their infancy. They represent a large fraction of the AWS business, and continue to accelerate.The Team:Lake Formation is our fully managed service to simplify building and securing data lakes. It features Blueprints to ingest data from commons sources, ML transforms to clean and de-duplicate data and a unified security model with fine-grained permissions (at the database, table, and column level) that are applicable across a wide range of AWS analytic and ML services (Redshift Spectrum, Glue, EMR Spark, QuickSight).The Lake Formation team is looking for an Applied Scientist with experience in building secure, scalable solutions that delight customers. You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You have strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.Technical Responsibilities:· Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.· Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems.· Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, BDDs, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving.· Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided· Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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