Applied Scientist
Seattle, WA
|Onsite
|Contract
|Job ID 71762|Posted Sep 22, 2025JOB DESCRIPTION
Applied scientists are specialists with deep expertise in areas such as machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge acquisition, etc.
They apply scientific principles in their area of expertise and related fields to: (a) assess the feasibility and timeline of new initiatives requiring significant inventions, and (b) develop new algorithms or enhance existing algorithms for significantly improving the customer experience/impact.
They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing the state-of-the-art for improving client's products and services.
Required:
- -Experience programming in Java, Python or related language
- Experience in ML and LLM AWS services like Bedrock, Sagemaker
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Past industry preference
- PhD, or Master's degree
- Bachelors Degree Required
- Delivery of work
- Accuracy and quality of work
Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us.
All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.