Senior Manager, Applied Science, Amazon Business System Integrations

Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Data Science

In short

Amazon Business System Integrations is seeking a Senior Manager of Applied Science to lead a team of applied scientists in Hyderabad or Bengaluru. This foundational leadership role involves defining the scientific vision, hiring and growing talent, and directing research in AI agents and human-AI teams to improve performance, automation, and reliability at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate will translate cutting-edge science into measurable business impact and shipped products.

Responsibilities

Set the long-term scientific vision and team strategy for agent performance evaluation and learning.
Hire, grow, and retain a high-calibre applied science team.
Guide the team through foundational challenges in agent perception, reasoning, evaluation, and human-AI collaboration.
Drive cross-organizational alignment with partner teams and product leadership.
Ensure research translates to customer outcomes: higher task accuracy, lower cost-per-action, faster time-to-production, and measurable productivity.
Establish scientific rigor and operational excellence in experimentation, evaluation, and reproducibility.
Advance the state of the art through publications, patents, and open-source work.
Translate science into shipped product, partnering with engineering and product leaders.
Represent science in leadership, roadmap decisions, and directly with enterprise customers.

Requirements

Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent.
Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale.
Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives.
Experience hiring and leading experienced scientists, and developing junior members.

Desired Qualifications

10+ years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large-scale applications.
5+ years of hands-on work in big data, machine learning and predictive modeling.
5+ years of people management experience.
PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent).
Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.
Experience with Java, C++, or other programming languages, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or an equivalent scripting language.
Experience researching actual applications.

Benefits

Inclusive culture that empowers Amazonians.
Workplace accommodation and adjustment support for individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process.

Skills

Machine LearningAIStatisticsComputer ScienceAWSHadoopSparkPigHiveJavaC++RMATLABPython

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