Amazon Photos is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to leverage AI and recent advancements in Vision-Language models to help customers relive their cherished memories, re-thinking the product roadmap and delivering on short-term and long-term investments.
Requirements
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, or a related field with strong publications in refereed academic journals/conferences
- 10+ years of combined academic and applied research experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, Python etc.)
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with ML framework such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn etc.
- Excellent technical publications and material contributions to the CV/ML/AI field as related to image, video or natural language processing
- Proven track record of innovation in creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
- 10+ years of building business application with deep learning toolkits and frameworks
Responsibilities
- Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility and often used as reference across organization
- You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice
- Amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization, scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures
- Serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development and develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists and communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports
- Help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads
Other
- Excellent writing skills for presenting business cases and scientific models with rigorous analyses that support results to influence important decisions
- Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions
- Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports
- Help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
