# Sr. Applied Scientist, Applied AI & Data Architecture

Application deadline: Nov 15, 2026 Do you want to define how enterprises customize their own models ? Do you enjoy work that spans data curation, post-training, evaluation, and production deployment of customized models? As a Senior Applied Scientist in Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will build that path from customization to trusted evaluation. You will prove it with customers on their own data. You will help customers decide when and how to customize foundation models, using techniques that range from parameter-efficient fine-tuning and distillation to preference optimization and reinforcement fine-tuning. You will turn that work into reusable recipes, evaluation methods, and open-source accelerators that let builders customize models reliably and cost-effectively. The role splits roughly 50/50 between direct customer engagements and building leverage through reusable science assets, open source, and thought leadership. - Customer work: You will partner with customer science and engineering teams on their hardest customization problems. You'll frame the problem, choose the right approach, design the evaluation, and work hands-on to get customized models into production. - Buildin

- **Id**: 4050515
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-sr-applied-scientist-applied-ai-data-architecture>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States, New York, United States, Irvine, United States, Denver, United States, Dallas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7952
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## 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**: 167100
- **Max**: 226100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 226100

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Pre-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **AgentOps** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Hadoop** — Optional: yes
- **NumPy** — Optional: yes
- **Quantization** — Optional: yes
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: yes
- **SciPy** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow C++** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:46:54Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 226100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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