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Senior Applied Scientist, Risk and Compliance Solutions (RCS)

San Diego, California, United StatesFull-time2026-10-19 → 2026-10-24

Core

Building ML and GenAI systems to accelerate regulatory change cycles, draft compliance requirements, and model breach risks for Amazon's Risk and Compliance Solutions.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (AI/ML Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Production ML/GenAI systems, agentic workflows, and evaluation science for financial crime compliance.

Domain

Financial services compliance, regulatory technology, risk modeling.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD or Master's with 5+ years applied research, Java/C++/Python, 3+ years building ML for business, rare-event modeling, GenAI system design, agentic system architecture, evaluation science, model explainability, uncertainty quantification.

Preferred skills

R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy, neural deep learning, large-scale ML systems.

Technologies

Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lambda.

Responsibilities

Formulate compliance problems as ML/GenAI tasks, develop risk models for breach conversion, build GenAI systems for requirement translation and reporting, design evaluation frameworks, deploy and monitor models in production, explain model decisions and quantify uncertainty, create reusable science components, architect agentic systems, set technical direction and mentor teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship