Applied Scientist II, Sheriff Team- Payroll tech

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Not verified

Mental health support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Learning budget

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Verification

Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

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401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$106,409 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+7.7% - Faster than average

Matched to SOC 13-2011 - Finance aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Finance From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

Shift type

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Weekend work

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Company

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Assessment

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Deadline

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About this role

Applied Scientist II, Sheriff Team- Payroll tech Hyderabad, Telangana, IND Payroll Tech's Sheriff team develops and maintains ML and Generative AI applications that support Payroll Operations and Amazon employees at scale. Our portfolio includes Pay-Input Anomaly Detection, which improves the pay experience by identifying pay input irregularities such as leaves and insurance discrepancies; Percept, which improves ticket resolution by providing intelligent ticket prioritization via sentiment scoring, ticket summarization, defect classification, and categorization; Penny, a Virtual Assistant that enables payroll operations teams to efficiently retrieve information from multiple sources including policies, Percept data, vendor data, and HR data via Xylem through a single browser interface; Pay Ticket Genie, in process of being integrated with Amazon AZA(A to Z Assistant); Niyam, our rule engine; and Policy as Code Extraction (PoCo), a critical component of SPACE (Single Payroll Autonomous and Computation Engine) Amazon's in-house payroll system built to eliminate third-party vendor dependency for payroll processing. PoCo ensures data accuracy by validating that pay instructions are correct and performing calculations when required. It consists of two components: policy-based rule creation, where business owners select a pay code and provide policy links to generate rules for specific business processes, and rule evaluation, where upstream services send real-time validation or calculation requests and receive results along with rationale for any failures. Sheriff team owns policy-based rule creation and powering the rule evaluation system with rules generated. As an Applied Scientist on the Sheriff team, you will own and advance the ML and GenAI capabilities that power

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