Applied Science Manager - Edge AI Alexa Edge AI

The Alexa Edge AI team under Alexa Ambient Computing Tech Organization is looking for an Applied Science manager with strong leadership skills
and AI expertise. In this role you will lead a group of talented Applied Scientists to develop industryleading technology with computer vision and multimodal perception models for various edge applications.
This is a an opportunity for a leader to have direct business impact while delivering production worthy AI solutions to millions of customers. We are particularly interested in candidates with leadership experience in productizing edgebased AI systems.

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Science manager you will bring structure to ambiguous business problems and use science logic and practical experience to decompose them into scalable solutions. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design clarity model structure efficiency and extensibility.
You tackle intrinsically hard problems while constantly learning to acquire skills and expertise as needed.

The ideal candidate is a strong creative and highlymotivated leader with handson experience in managing teams while driving CVML / AI initiatives.

You will use your technical acumen to resolve product ambiguities and lend clarity to the solution space. In this role you will anticipate technical / schedule risks within projects and mitigate them with proactive measures to deliver high quality solutions on time.

You will be an excellent mentor to your team members while motivating rewarding and coaching them towards their career goals. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in daytoday people and performance management tasks.

As a manager you will leverage your crisp communication skills and collaborative attitude to build trust with our cross functional partners within various organizations.



About the team
The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision audio and speech) based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.

MS/PhD degree in Computer Vision Machine Learning or related areas.
Proven track record of shipping computer vision or other AI systems
6 years of Applied research experience
3 years of experience managing scientists
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Experience building and shipping Computer Vision and Machine Learning solutions for the edge
Experience with multimodal LLMs including vision language models
Experience in the field of object detection scene understanding and recognition applications

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $165500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $286000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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.