Applied Scientist Iii, Amazon Robotics

PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

The Research Team at Amazon Robotics is seeking a passionate Applied Scientist, with a strong track record of industrial research, innovation leadership, and technology transfer, with a focus on ML Applications.

As you could imagine, data is at the heart of our innovation. This role will be participating in creating the ML and AI roadmap, leading science initiatives, and shipping ML products.

Key job responsibilities

**You will be responsible for**:

- Thinking Big and ideating with Data Science team, other Science teams, and stakeholders across the organization to co-create the ML roadmap.
- Collaborating with customers and cross-functional stakeholder teams to help the team identify, disambiguate, and define key problems.
- Independently innovating, creating, and iterating ML solutions for given business problems. Especially, using techniques such as Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, etc.
- Collaborating with other Science, Tech, Ops, and Business leaders to ship and iterate ML products.
- Promoting best practices and mentoring junior team members on problem solving and communication.
- Leading state-of-the-art research work and pursuing internal/external scientific publications.

A day in the life
You will co-create ML/AI roadmap. You will help team identify business opportunities. You will prototype, iterate ML/AI solutions. You will drive communication with stakeholders to implement and ship ML solutions. e.g., computer vision, deep learning, explainable AI, causal inference, reinforcement learning, etc. You will mentor and guide junior team members in delivering projects and business impact. You will work with the team and lead scientific publications.

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

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

About the team
- Planning/coordinating the paths of thousands of robtos
- Dynamic task allocation to thousands of robots.
- Learning how to manipulate products sold by Amazon.
- Co-designing an optimizing robotic logistics processes.

Our team also serves as a hub to foster innovation and support scientists across Amazon Robotics. In addition, we coordinate research engagements with academia.

Westborough, MA, USA
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.