Applied Scientist -- Foundation Models, SSO

Amazon
Santa Clara, CA, USA2026-08-17ONSITE

About the job

We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer to build efficient, stable foundation models for long-horizon agentic workloads. The role combines model development with systems and hardware optimization.

Responsibilities

Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate custom foundation models.

Improve model efficiency, stability, latency, throughput, and memory usage.

Build models that support planning, tool use, memory, self-correction, and multi-step task execution.

Optimize training and inference using CUDA, Triton, custom GPU kernels, and tensor operations.

Profile and resolve compute, memory, communication, and distributed-training bottlenecks.

Work with GPUs and specialized AI accelerators, including AWS Trainium and other custom tensor hardware.

Develop evaluations for model reliability and long-horizon agent performance.

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Experience using Unix/Linux

Experience in professional software development

Experience with AWS Trainium, Inferentia, Neuron SDK, TPUs, or other custom accelerators

PhD in machine learning, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field