What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
The Science Tooling And Research (STAR) Team at Amazon Robotics is seeking a passionate Applied Scientist, with a strong track record of industrial research, innovation leadership, and technology transfer, with a focus on ML Applications.
At Amazon Robotics, we apply cutting edge advancements in robotics, software development, Big Data, ML and AI to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We operate hundreds of buildings that employ hundreds of thousands of robots teaming up to perform sophisticated, large-scale missions. There are a lot of exciting opportunities ahead of us that can be unlocked by scientific research. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.
As you could imagine, data is at the heart of our innovation. This role will be participating in creating the ML and AI roadmap, leading science initiatives, and shipping ML products.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Independently innovating, creating, and iterating modeling solutions for given business problems. Especially, using techniques such as Spatial–temporal ML methods, Optimization, Causal Inference, etc.
- Collaborating with other Science, Tech, Ops, and Business leaders to ship and iterate model products.
- Promoting best practices and mentoring junior team members on problem solving and communication.
- Leading state-of-the-art research work and pursuing internal/external scientific publications.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4 years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 2 years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C , Python or related language
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of hands-on predictive modeling and large data analysis experience
- Knowledge of architectural concepts and algorithms, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, or equivalent
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