Data Scientist , Global Services Security Engineering

$125,500 - $212,800/Yr

Amazon - Irvine, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Irvine, CA

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About the position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking talented scientists to join the Security Innovation team within AWS Global Services Security (GSS). This role focuses on leveraging AI/ML technologies to enhance security solutions for AWS customers. The position involves envisioning, prototyping, and scaling AI/ML solutions to address various security use cases, collaborating with multiple business lines, and producing impactful results in a hands-on environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify viable ML opportunities by listening to security and business teams and develop plans from experiments to proof-of-concept to software product.
• Explore data to find impactful combinations of data transformations and analysis approaches, validating hypotheses and identifying new analytics opportunities.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and test hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, using quantitative and business judgment to report results scientifically.
• Seek partnerships with AI/ML scientists and architects to pursue new data science approaches for real-world issues.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large-scale production services.
• Contribute to best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations for different stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience or Master's degree and 2 years of experience.
• 3+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab).
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing, neural deep learning methods, and/or machine learning.
• 3+ years of experience using Python and hands-on experience building models for business applications with deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, MXNet.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience with deep learning (e.g., CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformer) and training/fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience with a broad set of ML approaches including traditional classification and clustering, time series analysis, anomaly detection, and Bayesian non-parametric methods.
• 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 1+ years of experience in information security, threat detection, or related domains.
• Experience in production-level software development.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and arrangements.
• Mentorship and career advancement resources.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
• Employee-led affinity groups and ongoing learning experiences.