Applied Scientist, LLM Code Agents, Kiro Science

Amazon
Santa Clara, CA, USA2025-11-11ONSITE

About the job

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer that are transforming the software development landscape.

Responsibilities

Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence

Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale

Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide

Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance

Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP)

Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems

Qualifications

Minimum

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 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

Preferred

Experience using Unix/Linux

Experience in professional software development