Amazon's AGI Information is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to drive science advancements in the Amazon Knowledge Graph team (AKG). AKG is re-inventing knowledge graphs for the LLM era, optimizing for LLM grounding. At the same time, AKG is innovating to utilize LLMs in the knowledge graph construction pipelines to overcome obstacles that traditional technologies could not overcome.

As a member of the AKG IR team, you will have the opportunity to work on interesting problems with immediate customer impact. The team is addressing challenges in web-scale knowledge mining, fact verification, multilingual information retrieval, and agent memory operating over Graphs. You will also have the opportunity to work with scientists working on the other challenges, and with the engineering teams that deliver the science advancements to our customers.

A successful candidate has a strong machine learning and agent background, is a master of state-of-the-art techniques, has a strong publication record, has a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas, and has a track record of delivering to customers. The ideal candidate enjoys operating in dynamic environments, is self-motivated to take on new challenges, and enjoys working with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions.

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to demonstrate leadership in tackling large complex problems. You will collaborate with applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to build the knowledge graph that delivers fresh factual knowledge to our customers, and that automates the knowledge graph construction pipelines to scale to many billions of facts. Your first responsibility will be to solve entity resolution to enable conflating facts from multiple sources into a single graph entity for each real world entity. You will develop generic solutions that work fo all classes of data in AKG (e.g., people, places, movies, etc.), that cope with sparse, noisy data, that scale to hundreds of millions of entities, and that can handle streaming data. You will define a roadmap to make progress incrementally and you will insist on scientific rigor, leading by example.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually