Applied Scientist, Regulatory, Intelligence, Safety and Compliance (RISC)

Amazon
USA, VA, Arlington / USA, WA, Seattle2026-06-19ONSITE

About the job

We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of agentic AI, GenAI, Machine Learning, Software Engineers, and work together to tackle challenging problems across diverse compliance domains. We leverage and train state-of-the-art large-language-models (LLMs), multi-modal model, mixed with elegant harness engineering and SKILL building to 1) detect illegal and unsafe products across the Amazon catalog; 2) automation safety and compliance content authoring; 3) reasoning over enforcement action to provide actionable insights to Amazon sellers.

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and approaches in content generation, multi-modal classification, global product taxonomy, intent detection, information retrieval, anomaly and fraud detection, agentic AI, generative AI and multi-agent system.

• Translate product and CX requirements into measurable science problems and metrics.

• Collaborate with product and tech partners and customers to validate hypothesis, drive adoption, and increase business impact

• Key author in writing high quality scientific papers in internal and external peer-reviewed conferences.

Qualifications

Minimum

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 building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

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

Preferred

Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

Experience in professional software development