Software Development Engineer Geospatial

The Amazon Last Mile Geospatial team builds systems that model the real world to enable routing for drivers. We build maintain and vend base map data road network data map tiles geocodes of addresses and time estimates for service as well as transit times. We also provide a shortest path service to find fastest paths between locations and a service to optimize consolidation of stops. Together these systems help us get better at determining the locations that we go to deliver packages figure out how to get to those locations and to estimate the effort of delivery for planning.

While it may be easy to say Why build yet another Maps as a first reaction as we go deeper into our problems the answer becomes increasingly clear and challenging. We are building systems that enable depth focused solutions. For example we are interested in not only getting a person to an address like 300 Boren Ave N we are also interested in helping them find out if there is a mailing room in the building and if there is helping them navigate quickly to that mailing room. We are also interested in accurately estimating how long it would take to arrive at the address find the mailing room and drop a package there. We will incorporate the ability to leverage mass transit multiple modes of transportation and traffic awareness to find the most efficient paths for our drivers. We are also interested in making it easy to calculate paths on cheap mobile devices or in simplifying the process to find an efficient path to cover hundreds of delivery points. Several of these problems require us in building systems that can work with an ensemble of models as well as support the right segmentation of inputs to make good estimates on the outputs.

There are several unsolved or partially solved problems in this space such as automatically adding new roads detected from sensor/video data into the larger road graph deterministically detecting if a new road is in fact just a modification to an existing road (such as a change in curvature of an existing road due to a new sidewalk) accurately determining the bearing of a person when they start traveling leveraging only a single and single IMU sensor source parsing unstructured addresses such as in countries like India processing alternate solutions within microseconds on a mobile device without talking to a backend service and so on. The right person for this space would enjoy working in a space that requires constantly pushing both the research and technology boundaries to unlock solutions to such problems.

Our key output metrics include location accuracy coverage and accuracy of our road network for routing and users to the correct location predictive accuracy of service and transit estimates. We also measure the operational impact of these inputs on delivery success and on the gaps between actual versus planned onzone times transit times and service times.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit know how to deliver are deeply technical highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems we want to talk to you.


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Key job responsibilities

Participate in the design implementation and deployment of successful largescale systems and services in support of our fulfillment operations and the businesses they support.
Participate in the definition of secure scalable and lowlatency services and efficient physical processes.
Work in expert crossfunctional teams delivering on demanding projects.
Functionally decompose complex problems into simple straightforward solutions.
Understand system interdependencies and limitations.
Share knowledge in performance scalability enterprise system architecture and engineering best practices.

About the team
Maps Axiom team is responsible to provide foundational services datasets and data transformation capabilities to Last Mile organization to enable experimentation measurement analysis training and inferences to enable the best in class driver experience. Our Mapmatching and Activity Classification products enable creation of models and services to plan efficient routes for our drivers. Our solutions impact the experience of Amazon delivery associates and partners as they make deliveries around the world! An engineer on our team will have an opportunity to envision design and implement bigdata solutions scalable to handle data at Amazon scale and robust to service multiple customers across the organization. The team provides an opportunity to learn and build production systems using AWS services while working with seasoned Amazon senior engineers. The team also provides an opportunity to mentor junior engineers. We value diversity in the team and deliberately seek out diverse hires to build the best team possible.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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