# Applied Scientist II, Kiro Science

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. Key job responsibilities As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets real-world application: - 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 product

- **Id**: 3663977
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-applied-scientist-ii-kiro-science>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T04:50:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6733
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Hybrid work, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4570
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 171600
- **Max**: 222200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 222200

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T04:50:50Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 222200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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