Applied Scientist, Denied Party Screening, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Applied Scientist, Denied Party Screening, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to join the Denied Party Screening team within AWS Security. The role focuses on building ML/AI models to detect prohibited transactions and deny entities, scaling to over a billion events daily.

• Drive research, design, and development of novel ML/AI models and systems powering critical products and services.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ML/AI solutions, iterating quickly based on data and feedback.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and grow a team of talented ML scientists and engineers.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques.

• Review the latest model performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Brainstorm new architectures and approaches with the cross‑functional team during a whiteboard session.
• Dive deep into a complex dataset, leveraging advanced AI techniques to uncover hidden insights.
• Prototype a new model and run experiments to optimize performance.
• Present findings and recommendations to product and engineering leaders.
• Mentor a junior data scientist, providing guidance on best practices.

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS/CE/ML or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top‑tier peer‑reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing.

• Experience using Unix/Linux.
• Experience in professional software development.

AWS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.