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Principal Applied Scientist- Agentic RL , Kiro

Amazon • Santa Clara, California, United States


No Relocation

Posted: August 18, 2026

Description
  • AWS Agentic AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who will partner with world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro
Description
  • AWS Agentic AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who will partner with world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create the most efficient coding agents for Kiro that are transforming the software development landscape. Key job responsibilities As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation in agentic RL space: - Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence - Invent and implement state-of-the-art agentic RL training recipes that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale - Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide - Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance - Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR ) - Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems About the team Kiro team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We're leveraging the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to web-based tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency.
Basic Qualifications
  • - PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience - 5+ years of hands-on large scale training experience - Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals - Experience programming in C++, Python or related language
Preferred Qualifications