Applied Scientist II, Amazon Health AI (LLMs and VLMs for Pharmacy and One Medical), Bengaluru
Job Description
Amazon Health Services, which includes Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical, is hiring an Applied Scientist II for its Health AI team in Bengaluru. The role leads end-to-end development of AI and ML for healthcare, with a focus on large language models and vision-language models, and on tuning and distilling models so they run fast enough in production.
At a glance
- Role: Applied Scientist II, HST Health Evaluation
- Posted: 31 March 2026
- Focus: Healthcare AI, LLMs, VLMs, model distillation, evaluation
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Job ID: 10380168
- Apply: open until filled (re-checked 13 October 2026)
About the Health AI role
- Lead end-to-end AI/ML development for Amazon Health, including Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical
- Research, design and build ML models, focusing on LLMs and VLMs
- Optimise and fine-tune models for production, including distillation for lower latency
- Turn technical work into customer benefits with cross-functional teams
- Contribute to Amazon Health’s science community and roadmap
About Health AI
Health AI is part of Amazon Health Services and One Medical. It builds AI-enabled tools meant to make good healthcare easier to reach and to improve patient outcomes, both by helping patients directly and by giving clinicians more time for meaningful care.
What Amazon is looking for
- At least 3 years of building models for business applications
- A PhD, or a master’s degree and at least 4 years of experience in CS, CE, ML or a related field
- Patents or publications at top peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Programming in Java, C++, Python or a related language
- Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimisation, data mining, or parallel, distributed or high-performance computing
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
Pay and location
Amazon’s posting does not state a salary; pay is discussed during the hiring process. The role is based in Bengaluru, India.
How to apply
Apply through the official Amazon job posting. Amazon’s posting does not give a closing date, so the role is open until filled; ResearchJobs.in will re-check this listing on 13 October 2026. Amazon lists the minimum and preferred qualifications on the posting; read both before applying. Check the posting for location and work-authorisation details before you apply.
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Hiring institution: Amazon
Official advertisement: www.amazon.jobs
How to prepare for this application
- Evaluation: the team name mentions evaluation; think about how you would test an LLM on clinical tasks.
- Safety: expect questions on hallucination and patient safety in healthcare AI.
- Distillation: bring an example of making a large model smaller or faster.
- Old posting: it was first posted in March 2026 and is still open; apply soon.
- Leadership Principles: Amazon interviews lean on them; prepare two or three STAR stories for each.
About Amazon in India
Amazon runs large science and engineering teams in India, including in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Gurugram. Applied scientists and data scientists work on machine learning problems across retail, logistics, advertising, devices, payments and cloud services.
