Applied Scientist, Delivery Foundation Model
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazons Delivery Foundation Model team where youll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models.
We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages this role youll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazons vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities including image video and geospatial data.
- Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries.
- As a foundation model developer collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries improving experience and safety of a delivery driver an Amazon customer and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network.
- Drive technical direction for specific research initiatives ensuring robust performance in production environments.
A day in the life
As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team youll spend your day on the following:
- Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure
- Collaborate with fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning
- Collaborate with fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training evaluation and inference
- Contribute to focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment ensuring successful integration with production systems
- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders
- Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas
- Make significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions
About the team
The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazons global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazons unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety quality and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development from multimodal training using images videos and sensor data to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance.
Join us if youre excited about pushing the boundaries of whats possible in logistics working with world-class scientists and engineers and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
- PhD or Masters degree and 1 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 4 years of programming in Java C Python or related language experience
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- 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 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages this role youll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazons vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities including image video and geospatial data.
- Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries.
- As a foundation model developer collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries improving experience and safety of a delivery driver an Amazon customer and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network.
- Drive technical direction for specific research initiatives ensuring robust performance in production environments.
A day in the life
As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team youll spend your day on the following:
- Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure
- Collaborate with fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning
- Collaborate with fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training evaluation and inference
- Contribute to focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment ensuring successful integration with production systems
- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders
- Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas
- Make significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions
About the team
The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazons global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazons unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety quality and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development from multimodal training using images videos and sensor data to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance.
Join us if youre excited about pushing the boundaries of whats possible in logistics working with world-class scientists and engineers and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
- PhD or Masters degree and 1 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 4 years of programming in Java C Python or related language experience
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- 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 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Clara - 171600.00 - 222200.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Python
- C/C++
- Fortran
- R
- Data Mining
- Matlab
- Data Modeling
- Laboratory Techniques
- MongoDB
- SAS
- Systems Analysis
- Dancing
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