Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Identity

Technical Responsibilities

• Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.
• Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools that find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems.
• Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving.
• Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided.
• Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences.
• Act as a functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions and successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.
• Mentor and train the research scientist community on complex technical issues.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• 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 in patents or publications at top‑tier peer‑reviewed conferences or journals.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry or academic research experience.
• Experience in professional software development.

About the Team

The Automated Reasoning in Identity (ARI) team works on applying automated reasoning techniques to services within AWS's Identity organization.

Basic salary range for this position in USA, VA, Arlington is 167,100.00 – 226,100.00 USD annually.

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