Sr. Principal Scientist, Kiro Science

Job description

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We are building the systems foundations for the next generation of autonomous coding agents, agents that operate in parallel, run for hours or days, and collaborate on codebases at a scale that breaks the assumptions of tools built for human developers. The hard problems in this space are no longer about model quality alone. They are about the systems layer underneath: how agents coordinate, how state is managed across long horizons, how correctness is preserved when many agents act concurrently, and how deterministic infrastructure can take on responsibilities that LLMs cannot reliably handle.

Our team treats these as first-class research and engineering problems. We are designing new primitives for coordination, concurrency control, state management, validation, and inter-agent communication that move responsibility out of fragile LLM-mediated paths and into systems that are predictable, debuggable, and fast. Early prototypes have produced order-of-magnitude improvements in throughput and eliminated entire classes of integration-time failures that conventional architectures ship silently. The opportunity ahead is to define what the standard agent-systems stack looks like.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Develop breakthroughs in agentic architecture across areas such as autonomy, self-validation, continuous learning and timeseries foundation models.
- Mentor and guide junior scientists.
- Develop technology strategy and roadmap supporting product development
- Develop prototypes for key technology, oversee the productization of the prototype, and develop critical assessment for the prototype
- Write technical reports summarizing R&D progresses and communicate such progresses with stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

- PhD, or Master's degree in CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: AI (NLP or multi-modality models), Deep Learning, LLM model training, graph learning, software engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

- 15+ years of relevant, broad research experience after PhD degree or equivalent.
- First author publications at Tier-1 ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR.


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USA, CA, Santa Clara - 276,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 240,100.00 - 324,800.00 USD annually