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Applied Scientist, RL post-training, AWS

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $167,100–$226,100🗓 2026-05-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training solutions for frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance instruction following, reasoning over long context, and tool use for customer service applications.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (RL & LLM Post-training)

Builds

Advanced LLM capabilities and post-training pipelines for AWS cloud services

Domain

Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD or Master's with 6+ years applied research, Neural deep learning methods, Machine learning, Python/C++/Java programming

Preferred skills

LLM post-training research, Top-tier AI conference publications (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL), MxNet, TensorFlow

Technologies

Python, C++, Java, MxNet, TensorFlow, LLMs, RL algorithms

Responsibilities

Develop innovative RL post-training solutions for LLMs, Partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, Publish findings at peer-reviewed conferences and journals

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

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