Sr. Applied Science Manager, AWS Specialist Prototyping Team

Description:

Core to Amazon’s DNA is its methodology around executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest way to prove new ideas, technologies, and business models in a real-world environment. AWS Specialist Prototyping team provides hands-on support to qualified customers & partners to discover the art of the possible with AWS and accelerate their path to production.

If you are a highly creative problem solver who works to inspire, motivate, and define innovative solutions; are passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms, and are quick to pick up emerging technologies; are adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches, and validate the technical feasibility of solutions - this could be the role for you!

Key job responsibilities
A Sr. Applied Science Manager in the AWS Specialist Prototyping team sets the science direction for the team on emerging tech that represents the most innovative and challenging use cases for our customers. They ensure the success of this unique customer facing applied science execution team by serving as the engagement manager responsible for sourcing, qualifying, scoping, executing, delivering and transitioning Prototyping engagements. They drive science prototypes that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. They provide technical and science leadership related to large language models, generative multi-modal models and computer vision. They recruit high performing Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship. They establish team mechanisms, including team building, planning, and document reviews.

A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
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Work/Life Balance
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About the team
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

Within WWSO, the AWS Specialist Prototyping team's mission is to accelerate customer innovation by transforming complex business challenges into novel AWS solutions through rapid prototyping and experimentation.

Get a sample of the work we have done with customers here: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/innovation-ambassadors/?podcasts-cards.sort-by=item.additionalFields.EpisodeNum&podcasts-cards.sort-order=desc

Large language models we have created are here: https://huggingface.co/aws-prototyping/

Requirements:

- Experience in natural language processing, machine learning, or a related field.
- Experience leading and managing AI/ML science teams.
- Applied AI/ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer business challenges
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences- Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field (or relevant experience)
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to engage customer technical and business executives, discover the true requirements and recommend alternative technical and business approaches.
- Experience with building and fine tuning ML models including large language models for business applications
- Published research work in academic/industry conferences, and via open source

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
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