Principal Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning

We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead research and development in automated reasoning, formal verification, and program analysis. You will drive innovation in making formal methods practical and accessible for real-world systems at cloud scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead research initiatives in automated reasoning, formal verification, SMT solving, model checking, or program analysis
- Design and implement novel algorithms and techniques that advance the state of the art
- Mentor and guide applied scientists, research scientists, and engineers
- Collaborate with product teams to transition research into production systems
- Define technical vision and strategy for automated reasoning initiatives
- Represent AWS in the academic and research community
- Drive cross-organizational impact through technical leadership


About the team
The Automated Reasoning Group at AWS develops and applies cutting-edge formal methods and automated reasoning techniques to ensure the security, reliability, and correctness of AWS services and customer applications. Our work innovates tools and services to perform verification at scale and apply them to build safe and secure systems at AWS. We are also pioneering the use of formal verification and automated reasoning to develop agentic systems, ensuring AI agents operate within defined safety boundaries.