Sr. Applied Scientist, Agentic Automated Reasoning Group

Amazon
USA, MA, Boston / USA, OR, Portland / USA, TX, Austin2026-05-15ONSITE

About the job

The Agentic Automated Reasoning Group is building the next generation of software verification tools combining advances in artificial intelligence, the computational capacity of the cloud, and our deep expertise in the domain. Join us if you want to be a part of this transformational endeavor.

Responsibilities

- End-to-end technical leadership for delivering AR solutions working backwards customer use cases.

- Identify tools and methods capable of addressing the verification needs of customers, including any novel analysis capabilities required.

- Use tools spanning from fuzzers, property-based testing to model checkers, and interactive theorem provers to establish program properties.

- Explore generative AI techniques to help customers formalize their requirements, find revealing tests, generate required boiler plate for testing and model checking, and find and repair program proofs.

Qualifications

Minimum

- PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of applied research experience

- PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, or equivalent

- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

- Experience in formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, or theorem proving (academic or professional work)

Preferred

- Experience in professional software development

- Experience with interactive theorem provers, particularly Lean or Rocq

- Knowledge of one or more methods of defining semantics: operational, denotational, axiomatic, etc.

- Experience with automated software analysis techniques: abstract interpretation, data flow, model checking, etc.