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Applied Scientist III, AI & AGI Security

Amazon · New York, New York, USA · On-site

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Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Madrona.

About the role

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to contribute to the research and development of novel security validation and monitoring techniques for AI systems at scale. You will own and contribute to four critical work-streams: • Contribute to the broader internal and external scientific communities as a subject matter expert in AI security.

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We are seeking an Applied Scientist to contribute to the research and development of novel security validation and monitoring techniques for AI systems at scale. You will own and contribute to four critical work-streams:

1. Real-Time Agent Monitoring

Design and implement scientific approaches for continuous behavioral analysis of AI agents in production—detecting anomalous actions, prompt injection exploitation, and policy violations in real time.

2. Protection & Automated Remediation

Invent and deliver novel protection technologies and automated remediation techniques, building on research in security, cryptography, privacy, automated reasoning, and other domains, to enable safe and secure agentic AI models and AI applications.

3. AI Application and Capabilities Validation

Invent and deliver scalable methodologies for security testing of AI applications and AI capabilities (e.g. MCP, skills), including adversarial robustness evaluation, safety guardrail bypass detection, tool-use authorization boundaries, and trust boundary verification.

4. AI Asset Discovery & Inventory

Research and build scalable techniques to discover, identify, and catalog automatically all AI-enabled...

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