Applied Scientist, AWS Security Services

Amazon Web Services is looking for world class scientists to join the Security Analytics and AI Research team within AWS Security Services. This group is entrusted with researching and developing core ML and AI solutions for various AWS security services like GuardDuty (https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/) and Security Hub (https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/). In this group, you will invent and implement innovative solutions for never-before-solved problems. If you have passion for security and experience with large scale ML/AI problems and/or agentic systems, this will be an exciting opportunity.

The AWS Security Services team builds technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud. The team interacts with security researchers to codify our own learnings and best practices and make them available for customers. We are building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems to power next generation services.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. We thrive to provide a healthy balance between your personal and professional life which is crucial to your happiness and success here.

Key job responsibilities

• Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art ML/AI algorithms and systems for information security applications.
• Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large scale, highly complex production services.
• Report results in a scientifically rigorous way.
• Interact with security engineers, product managers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that we need innovative solutions for.

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