Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Just-Walk-Out Science Team

As part of the AWS Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Key job responsibilities
Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment thats more startup than big company. Well need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision image recognition machine learning real-time and distributed systems.

As a Sr. Applied Scientist you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other scientists. You will be the thought leader of the team. You will tackle challenging novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative youll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity thats higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that frankly havent been solved at scale before - anywhere. Along the way we guarantee that youll learn a ton have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

A key focus of this role will be developing and implementing advanced visual reasoning systems that can understand complex spatial relationships and object interactions in real-time. Youll work on designing autonomous AI agents that can make intelligent decisions based on visual inputs understand customer behavior patterns and adapt to dynamic retail environments. This includes developing systems that can perform complex scene understanding reason about object permanence and predict customer intentions through visual cues.

About the team
Just Walk Out (JWO) is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkoutyou just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store take what they want from our selection of fresh delicious meals and grocery essentials and go!

Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When youre done shopping you can just leave the store. Shortly after well charge your account and send you a receipt. Check it out at Designed and custom-built by Amazonians our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision sensor fusion and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision machine learning distributed systems and hardware design.

- PhD or PhD or equivalent research experience and 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 with programming languages like Python JavaScript Java or equivalent
- Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning Computer Vision Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

- Experience in designing and implementing visual reasoning systems that can understand and interpret complex spatial relationships
- Demonstrated experience in AI agent architecture design including decision-making frameworks and behavioral modeling
- Experience with advanced computer vision techniques including scene graph generation visual relationship detection and spatial reasoning
- Knowledge of modern visual-language models and multi-modal AI systems
- Experience implementing reinforcement learning for autonomous agent behavior
- 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 East Palo Alto - 192200.00 - 260000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually