DESCRIPTION

Are you excited to help the US Intelligence Community design, build, and implement AI algorithms to augment decision making while meeting the highest standards for reliability, transparency, and scalability? The Amazon Web Services (AWS) US Federal Professional Services team works directly with US Intelligence Community agencies and other public sector entities to achieve their mission goals through the adoption of Machine Learning (ML) methods. We build models for text, image, video, audio, and multi-modal use cases, using traditional or generative approaches to fit the mission. 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 on customer needs.

At AWS, we’re hiring experienced data scientists with a background in both traditional and generative AI who can help our customers understand the opportunities their data presents, and build solutions that earn the customer trust needed for deployment to production systems.

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 broad experience building models using all kinds of data sources, 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.

This position may require local travel up to 25%

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 must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with Polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
As an Data Scientist, you will:

– Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge AI algorithms to address real-world challenges
– Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of 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
About AWS

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience or Master’s degree and 2 years of experience
– 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
– Experience in using Python and hands on experience building models with deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, MXNet
– Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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