Applied Scientist, LLM Code Agents, Kiro Science

ID: 6572

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Location: USA, CA, Santa Clara - Santa Clara - Cuba

Salary: 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer that are transforming the software development landscape.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets real-world application:
- Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence
- Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale
- Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide
- Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance
- Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP)
- Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems

About the team
The AWS Developer Agents and Experiences (DAE) team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We're leveraging the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to web-based tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency.

Broadly, AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually

Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Company Website: https://www.amazon.com

Company Address: 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is a United States-based legal entity and operating subsidiary affiliated with Amazon.com, Inc., established to support the parent company’s software development, engineering, research and product delivery activities within the United States. As an operating arm within the broader Amazon corporate structure, this entity functions primarily as a development center that consolidates engineering, product management, research and related professional services for Amazon’s array of consumer, retail, cloud and device products. The subsidiary serves as an organizational vehicle for recruiting and employing technical and non-technical staff, conducting product and systems development work, and coordinating cross-functional programs that feed into Amazon’s global platforms and services. At a high level, the core activities of Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. include software engineering and application development; systems design and infrastructure engineering; data science and machine learning research; product and program management; testing and quality assurance; and operational support for services deployed across Amazon’s businesses. The work performed by teams associated with this development center contributes to the design, build, deployment and maintenance of scalable back-end services, consumer-facing features and enterprise tools. These activities typically span areas such as e-commerce retail systems, inventory and fulfillment technology, payments and checkout systems, recommendation and personalization engines, search and catalog services, advertising technology, cloud infrastructure services, developer tools, voice and device platforms (including Alexa and related embedded software), and mobile and web application front ends. The main products and services supported through the development center are those that reflect Amazon’s primary business lines. This includes contributions to Amazon.com’s retail and marketplace platform (catalog management, customer experience features, seller systems and order processing), Amazon Web Services (cloud compute, storage, data services and developer tooling), Alexa and devices (voice assistant features, device firmware, and cloud-based voice services), Kindle and digital content services (content distribution and reading applications), Prime membership features (media delivery, recommendations, and benefits management), and advertising technology (ad serving, targeting and measurement solutions). In each area, the development center’s personnel typically work on software components, APIs, distributed systems, automation, security, reliability engineering and performance optimization to enable scalable, resilient services used by millions of customers worldwide. Beyond product development, the development center supports organizational activities such as engineering hiring and on-boarding, developer training programs, localized research initiatives, collaboration with academic partners, and participation in global product planning and feature roll-outs. Teams at the center often collaborate with other Amazon business units and international development centers to integrate new features into global releases, implement region-specific regulatory or compliance requirements, and adapt large-scale services to meet diverse customer and market needs. Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. operates within the broader industry positioning of Amazon, which on official company sources identifies itself as a technology company that operates in e-commerce, cloud computing, digital content, and consumer electronics. The subsidiary’s work aligns with those areas by focusing on technology development and operational engineering that underpin Amazon’s public-facing services and internal platforms. Official Amazon communications highlight continuous investment in product innovation, infrastructure, and customer experience improvements; the activities of development centers and engineering subsidiaries are core enablers of those investments. In practical terms, the development center serves as a hub for multidisciplinary engineering teams that apply modern software-development practices, cloud-native architectures and machine learning methods to solve large-scale problems. Typical operational emphases include building distributed systems with high availability, implementing secure and compliant data-handling practices, optimizing latency and throughput for customer transactions, automating deployment pipelines and monitoring, and using data-driven experimentation to inform product decisions. While Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is a legal corporate entity with administrative and operational responsibilities, its identity and output are tightly integrated with Amazon’s global product and service ecosystem. The value proposition of the center lies in providing specialized engineering capacity and localized operational capabilities that accelerate the creation, iteration and delivery of software and services that support Amazon’s customers, sellers, partners and internal stakeholders. As with other Amazon development centers, the subsidiary contributes to both feature development and the foundational technologies that enable Amazon’s large-scale commerce, cloud and device businesses. For public inquiries and general information about Amazon’s corporate structure, product lines and corporate mission, Amazon’s official corporate communications and website provide primary documentation. Amazon publicly states its overarching mission and describes its principal business segments and technology investments, which contextualize the role that U.S.-based development centers and subsidiaries play within the company’s broader strategy and operations.

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