TL;DR

Applied Scientist (AI): Contributing to the design, implementation, and scaling of decision-making algorithms that manage EC2's virtual and physical capacity systems with an accent on optimizing internal prices for compute resources. Focus on developing creative, novel, and data-driven approaches to improve cloud compute offerings and impact the bottom line of AWS.

Location: Hybrid work model near one of our U.S. %hirify_global% offices.

Salary: 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

Company

%hirify_global% Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

What you will do

Contribute to the design, implementation, and scaling of decision-making algorithms that manage EC2's virtual and physical capacity systems.
Analyze large volumes of data and develop prescriptive optimization models with inputs from ML or statistical models and business users.
Design engineering systems with scalability, extensibility, maintainability, and correctness in mind.
Review approaches by other scientists and engineers in terms of business relevance, technical validity, engineering/science interface, and computational performance.
Communicate results to guide business direction and working with software development teams to implement ideas in code.
Collaborate with scientists, software engineers, economists, and product managers to improve cloud compute offerings.

Requirements

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 programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

Employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion.
Endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources.
Value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.