DESCRIPTION

The Camera and Sensors team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to help build industry-leading technology with computer vision and multimodal perception models for various Amazon devices.

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist with the Camera and Sensors team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with multimodal models with an emphasis on computer vision. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of Computer Vision technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances for Amazon devices.

A day in the life
An Applied Scientist with the Camera and Sensors team you will support the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into practice.

About the team

You will work with a team of applied scientists and software engineers locally in Cambridge, along with a broader team of principle scientists, applied scientists and software engineers across multiple global teams in the devices group.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in applied research

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability
• Experience with conducting research in a corporate setting
• PhD, or Master's degree

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