Applied Scientist, AWS Insights & Optimization
Company websiteaws.org (AWS, opens in new tab)
Base salary $142,800 to $193,200
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA
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- LocationSeattle, WA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (25 min ago) · observed since
About this job
AWS Insights & Optimization is looking for an Applied Scientist to help develop sophisticated algorithms and models that involve analyzing and learning from over 540 billion customer cost, usage, and utilization events daily. We use this data to power cost anomaly detection, cost forecasting, rightsizing recommendations across seven compute services, Savings Plans optimization, and AI-powered conversational experiences that help customers understand and optimize their AWS spend. Our team's vision is to be the world's provider of intelligent AWS cloud financial management, where customers can understand, control, and optimize usage of AWS products. We sit at the nexus of all AWS services and interact directly with end-customers, building relationships with teams across AWS to ensure we offer a secure and reliable experience that builds trust and provides intelligent insights.
As a successful Applied Scientist in AWS Insights & Optimization, you will own models end-to-end — from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment. Your work may span cost anomaly detection (decomposition, detection, and root cause attribution), time-series forecasting with a focus on accuracy and consistency, rightsizing engines for EC2, EBS, Lambda, ECS, RDS, and Aurora, LLM evaluation science for AI-powered agent experiences, or agent memory architectures that enable persistent, adaptive behavior across sessions. You will work closely with applied scientists, software engineers, and product teams to enhance existing models and build new ones that solve challenging customer problems. You will drive implementation of proposed models, establish testing strategies to validate them before and after production, and define evaluation metrics that determine whether capabilities meet the quality bar. We value accuracy over speed, measurability over intuition, and simplicity over complexity — the simplest model that meets the bar wins. You are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, are excited about investigating and developing algorithms, and can influence technical teams and business stakeholders to solve real-world customer problems.
Basic Qualifications
- 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
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USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually
Source: AWS · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($142,800) is above 27% of the 328 Data & ML roles in Washington listed on this site; 70 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $136,000 to $168,100.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingApplied Scientist, AWS Insights & Optimization$142,800 to $193,200
Sr. ProServe Account Executive, Partners/FedCiv ProServe$142,800 to $193,200
Senior Partner Account Manager, US NatSec and Defense (Cleared), WWPS Global GSI Partners$142,800 to $193,200
Senior Cyber Operations Account Executive, Department of War (DoW)$142,800 to $193,200
Sr ProServe Account Executive - Financial Services, NAMER FINANCIAL SERVICES$142,800 to $193,200
Public Sector Sales - State of Colorado, West SLG$142,800 to $193,200
Sr Account Executive, USAF$142,800 to $193,200
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Applied Scientist, AWS Insights & Optimization (this listing) | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Sr. ProServe Account Executive, Partners/FedCiv ProServe | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Senior Partner Account Manager, US NatSec and Defense (Cleared), WWPS Global GSI Partners | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Senior Cyber Operations Account Executive, Department of War (DoW) | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Sr ProServe Account Executive - Financial Services, NAMER FINANCIAL SERVICES | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Public Sector Sales - State of Colorado, West SLG | $142,800 - $193,200 |
| Sr Account Executive, USAF | $142,800 - $193,200 |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-05-09
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: US, WA, Seattle
USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually
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