Zimeng Qiu

Member of Technical Staff, MAI SuperIntelligence

Bellevue, Washington, United States

About

Tech Lead Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI. I work on Nova foundation models post-training for agentic coding.

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Post-training @ Microsoft AI SuperIntelligence team

  • Amazon (Full-time · 6 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Applied Scientist
      Jul 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs

      Nova foundation models post-training lead - agentic coding skills, reinforcement learning, SFT

    • Applied Scientist II
      Mar 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Tech Lead - Alexa Entity Resolution and Retrieval: pre-training and fine-tuning encoders for multilingual low-resource language retrieval. Tech Lead - AGI Foundations: improving Amazon Nova models towards robust retrieval-augmented generation.

    • Applied Scientist
      Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Alexa - Entity Resolution and Retrieval

  • Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 · 5 mos

    Teaching Assistant of 11-611 Natural Language Processing, taught by Alan W. Black and David R. Mortensen.

  • Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
    May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos

    Worked on Natural Language Understanding in Amazon Alexa, focusing on using graph approaches solving NLU tasks.

  • Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University
    Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 · 6 mos

    Worked on domain adaptation of Natural Language Interfaces for IoT and Systems, cooperated with Snowflake Computing.