Applied Scientist, AI Security
We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our AI Security team, which builds security tooling and paved path solutions to ensure Generative AI (GenAI) based experiences developed by Amazon uphold our high security standards, and uses AI to develop foundational services that make security mechanisms more effective and efficient.As an Applied Scientist, you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing state-of-the-art solutions, to build an AI-based foundational service for securing products and services at Amazon scale. You will collaborate with applied scientists and software engineers to develop innovative technologies to solve some of our hardest security problems, and AI-based security solutions that support builder teams across Amazon throughout their software development journey, enabling Amazon businesses to strengthen their security posture more efficiently and effectively.Key job responsibilities• design and implement accurate and scalable methods to solve our hardest AI security problems• Lead and partner with applied scientists and software development engineers to drive technical design and implementation for a foundational GenAI-based security serviceAbout the teamThe mission of the AI Security organization is to ensure Generative AI experiences delivered by Amazon to our customers uphold our high security standards and to harness AI to strengthen Amazon’s security posture more efficiently and effectively.A day in the lifeA day in the life involves meeting Vulnerability Management and Incident Responder teams to review data flows, prediction use cases, and automation gaps. From here you will research data sets, working with security/software engineers to retrieve data needed for your analysis and explorations. Once you have framed the problems, you will conduct experiments, regressions, and various analysis activities to find insights. You will develop and train models that will then be placed into a production environment with the help of software engineers. You will then work with your security team partners to understand the effectiveness of the models created.About the teamThe Defensive Security team is small, tight-knit, and located in Austin, Texas. It is primarily software engineers, but will be developed into a hybrid team of software engineers and security engineers. This team will have tenured Amazonian leadership, with a track record of mentoring, coaching, and career progression support.About Amazon SecurityDiverse Experiences — Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why Amazon Security? — At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.Inclusive Team Culture — In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.Training & Career Growth — We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance — We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Advanced degree in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl ...