Software Development Engineer II Geospatial Geospatial

Are you fascinated with the idea of creating a digital representation of the world What about building learning systems to create the most precise and accurate representation Join the Geospatial team to build Maps for Amazon.

We build learning systems to identify road networks POIs and geocodes of addresses worldwide. Our delivery operations use these systems to determine the locations and plan the routes for delivery. Drivers use these systems to navigate to the delivery locations. Our mission is to vend geospatial data (e.g. maps traffic addresses and locations/geocodes) that is detailed and fresh through an intuitive experience that enables every driver independent of tenure and affinity to succeed in their delivery tasks.

We are not creating another consumergrade mapping solution 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 guiding them where to park where the building entrance find out if there is a mailing room in the building that is open at that time and guide them to that mailing room or alternative delivery location at the customer unit based on various factors. The level of detail we provide on the delivery journey is leading in the mapping industry. Our geocodes also dictate how to optimally group the packages for that stop based on proximity and walk times which significantly impacts route plan and stop plan efficiencies. Several of these problems require us to build systems that can work with an ensemble of ML 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 parsing and managing both structured and unstructured addresses in various countries modeling building entrances and unit access in multiunit buildings optimal polygonal geofence guardrails and multiple delivery locations with business and transportation mode awareness.

The technical domain is multifaceted. We build lowlatency highlyavailable services we build big data processing pipelines to refresh or produce new data we train ML models and we run science experiments. We also build solutions for these capabilities ranging from stateoftheart ML platforms to modeling storing vending and managing large amounts of data.

Our key output metrics include location accuracy coverage and predictive accuracy of service and transit estimates. We also measure the operational impact of these inputs on delivery success and transporter experience.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Participate in the design implementation and deployment of successful largescale systems and services in support of our transportation 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.

A day in the life
Collaborate with engineering and science teams on building stateoftheart scalable big data pipelines ML training and inference solutions highavailability services with low latencies.
Analyze nuanced metrics to understand system behavior and innovate on solutions to optimize our success metrics.
Play a key role in the technology that empowers the delivery of millions of smiles every day around the world.

About the team
The broader Geospatial organization covers Amazon Maps driving and walking time estimation and the transporter navigation experience. This team focuses on destination related data and locations for parking building entries delivery locations and other waypoints throughout the transporter delivery journey and how they relate to places floors and building layouts. We build systems that learn ingest rank and vend data related to locations.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 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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