Principal Applied Scientist, Conversational Assistant Modeling & Learning

Description
Alexa AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science behind Alexa+, Amazon's LLM-powered conversational assistant. You will own the technical direction for key initiatives spanning large language model fine-tuning, alignment, agentic reasoning, and evaluation — directly shaping the experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

As a Principal Scientist, you are a hands-on technical leader. You define research directions, design and run rigorous experiments, and ensure that research translates into production systems at scale. You decompose ambiguous, hard problems into clear solutions. Your code, models, and documents are exemplary and frequently referenced across the organization.

You amplify your impact beyond your own work. You lead scientific reviews, scrutinize experimental design and modeling assumptions, and align teams toward coherent strategies. You mentor senior scientists, contribute significantly to hiring, ...