Applied Scientist
1 month ago
Amazon's maps play a crucial role in our vehicle navigation, routing, and planning problems to ensure fast and safe deliveries to our customers.
As part of the Last Mile Geospatial Science organization, you'll partner closely with other scientists and engineers in a collegial environment with a clear path to business impact.
We have an exciting problem area to augment the maps and routing inputs from satellite/aerial imagery and street videos by leveraging the latest computer vision and deep learning techniques.
Key job responsibilitiesSuccessful candidates should have a deep knowledge (both theoretical and practical) of various machine learning algorithms for large scale computer vision problems, the ability to map models into production-worthy code, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big, long term problems.
The applied scientist should be proficient with image and video analysis using machine learning, including designing architecture from scratch, modify existing loss functions, full model training, fine-tuning, and evaluating the latest deep learning models.
The Applied Scientist optimizes different models for specific platforms, including edge devices with restricted resources. Multi-modal models, e.g., Large Vision Language Models (LVLM), zero-shot, few-shot, and semi-supervised learning paradigms are used extensively.A day in the life
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.
If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children.
Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of deep learning, computer vision, human robotic interaction, algorithms implementation experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at toptier peerreviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience with machine learning techniques for fast and accurate extraction of visual features of humans (i.e. shape, pose, segmentation) from photographs
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visitOur compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market.
Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Amazon is a total compensation company.Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.-
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