• Senior Applied Scientist, Edge Technology

    Amazon (Cambridge, MA)


    Description

    Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

     

    We are looking for a high-caliber Senior Applied Scientist to join our team. As part of the larger technology team working on new consumer technology, your work will have a large impact to Amazon consumer product design and features delighting millions of customers.

     

    Key job responsibilities

    In the role, you will:

    - Work with AI scientists and SW developers to bring new and innovative audio and multimodal AI features to delight customers

     

    - Propose new research projects, get buy-in from stakeholders, plan and budget the project and lead the team for successful execution

     

    - Work closely with an interdisciplinary product development team including outside partners to bring the prototype algorithm and model into commercialization

     

    - Lead the team on state-of-the-art deep learning technology development

    Basic Qualifications

    - 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

     

    - PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience

     

    - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

     

    - Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

    Preferred Qualifications

    - 6+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

     

    - Experience with conducting research in a corporate setting and delivering to product

     

    - Well versed in the latest deep learning architecture and training techniques for audio and multimodal foundation model development

     

    Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

     

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