Principal Applied Scientist, Mission AI Lab, AWS Region Services
Core
Create frontier AI models for national security problems, pushing state-of-the-art models to excel at tasks no off-the-shelf model has seen.
Role type
Principal Applied Scientist (Mission AI)
Builds
Production systems for complex reasoning tasks, data pipelines, and evaluation frameworks for national security delivery.
Domain
National Security / AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
predictive modeling, algorithm design, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, data curation, evaluation metric design, code implementation (Java/C++/Python), mentoring scientists
Preferred skills
frontier AI lab experience, novel algorithm creation, active TS/SCI clearance, defense AI company experience
Technologies
GPU hardware, reinforcement learning, supervised fine-tuning, LoRA-style methods
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end adaptation of frontier models, define evaluation sets and metrics, build data pipelines, judge when new methods are needed, extend models to new domains, run human-in-the-loop feedback loops, document methods, represent lab science in reviews, mentor scientists
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship