Applied Scientist II, SSG Science

AI in this role

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health Wellness, Amazon Echo & Astro products. This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon in developing state-of-the-art techniques that bring Gen AI on edge for our consumer products. We are looking for exceptional scientists to join our Applied Science team and help develop the next generation of edge models, and optimize them while doing co-designed with custom ML HW based on a revolutionary architecture. Work hard. Have Fun. Make History.

Key job responsibilities
What will you do?
- Quantize, prune, distill, finetune Gen AI models to optimize for edge platforms
- Fundamentally understand Amazon’s underlying Neural Edge Engine to invent optimization techniques
- Analyze deep learning workloads and provide guidance to map them to Amazon’s Neural Edge Engine
- Use first principles of Information Theory, Scientific Computing, Deep Learning Theory, Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- Train custom Gen AI models that beat SOTA and paves path for developing production models
- Collaborate closely with compiler engineers, fellow Applied Scientists, Hardware Architects and product teams to build the best ML-centric solutions for our devices
- Publish in open source and present on Amazon's behalf at key ML conferences - NeurIPS, ICLR, MLSys.

Basic qualifications

- 2+ 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
- Strong foundation in relevant mathematical concepts (linear algebra, calculus, etc.)

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in professional software development
- Prior experience in productionizing ML models and managing their full lifecycle from development to deployment

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How we rate this

Applied Scientist II, SSG Science at Amazon rates 95 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

Applied Scientist II, SSG Science is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on October 6, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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