Amazon
Principal Applied Scientist, Real-Time Conversational AI , AGI
US, CA, Sunnyvale · Principal
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$24,914 more — $253,614 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $253,614 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer and Information Research Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer and Information Research Scientists (15-1221) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.
- Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- The base salary range for this position is listed below.
Requirements
- Experience with multimodal model architectures that jointly process or generate across speech, text, and audio modalities
- Strong understanding of transformer architectures and their application to speech/audio domains
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time interactive systems - models that handle concurrent input and output
- Experience with distributed training at scale - including parallelism strategies, training stability, and curriculum design
- Background in speech recognition, speech synthesis (TTS), or speech enhancement
- Experience shipping research to production at scale - models serving real users, not just benchmark results
- Contributions to open-source speech/audio ML systems or widely used research codebases
- History of mentoring and growing research teams from individual contributors to technical leaders
- Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
- adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions
Compensation
- The base salary range for this position is listed below.
Company info
- We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to drive the research and development of real-time multimodal conversational AI.
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