Applied Scientist III, AGI Responsible AI (RAI)

Amazon

Locations
Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Sunnyvale, California, USA
Salary range
USD $192,200 – $260,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
AI Safety
Posted
Last week

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $200k to $280k at an employer this size. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 6+ years · posts $192k to $260k base at a company over 5,000 · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Amazon's posting.

Designs and builds responsible AI evaluation for large language models and generative AI, covering safety, fairness, robustness and trustworthiness of frontier models. The work sits in Amazon's AGI Responsible AI team, which turns evaluation results into model launch decisions across pretraining, post-training and product teams.

What you'd do

  • Own the creation of evaluation frameworks, benchmarks and metrics for safety, fairness, robustness and harmful content.
  • Build scalable automated evaluation pipelines using model-based and human-in-the-loop methods for large language models.
  • Work with pretraining, post-training and product teams to convert evaluation findings into model fixes and launch calls.
  • Carry out careful experiments and statistical analysis, and publish findings at leading venues.
  • Mentor junior scientists and help lift the team's scientific standards.
  • Advocate for responsible AI practices at every stage of model development.

What it asks for

  • 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business use.
  • PhD, or Master's degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
  • Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language.
  • Hands-on experience with neural deep learning and machine learning methods.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark (preferred).

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Marketplaces and commerce · Media and streaming · Seattle, WA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1994

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