How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a project team that is tasked with solving a huge everyday problem through innovative technologies that transform and disrupt an entire industry
If this sounds intriguing come join Amazon Safety and Driver Assistance Technologies to help transform the delivery experience for customers with unprecedented quality efficiency and scale. Each time an Amazon package is delivered technology is at the scene and behind the scene. Today Last Mile solutions support Amazon global business initiatives including Amazon Logistics Amazon Flex Amazon Lockers etc. and its scope is expanding every day.
Our team is actively seeking motivated and multi-talented individuals who are passionate about transforming the logistics and package delivery operations. We are inventing the next-generation smart delivery operation with modern technologies that also encompassing Wearable Robotics Machine Learning etc. We develop the technology productize the solution operate and support the lifecycle of the products and services we deployed.
Our scope includes devices sensors hardware and software matching customer needs and delivery capacity with precision and efficiency and expanding and transforming delivery experience with unprecedented quality productivity and scale.
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist you will research implement and deploy scientific techniques that span the domain of Computer Vision Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion. You will tackle challenging situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity thats higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems.
A day in the life
On a typical day you will research on possible approaches in the literature for a given problem or implement Computer Vision/Machine Learning algorithms that demonstrates the feasibility of an approach or implement the same in production. In addition scientist also periodically apply for patents give presentations on their research to the wider scientific community and expand their influence.
About the team
- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing
- Experience in solving business problems through machine learning data mining and statistical algorithms
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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 $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/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.