Applied Scientist II, Decision Science and Technology (DST)

We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with LLMs, use of edge devices, computer vision, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality defect detection mechanisms.

Our mission is to improve the reliability of equipment (conveyors, motors, belts), and effectively identify from sensors, images, and video specific actions on material handling equipment (MHE) that can prevent unplanned downtime. With millions of products available on Amazon.com comes variation in weight, size, material, and shape. We build products and systems to detect and prevent equipment downtime using a diverse set of classification and anomaly detection algorithms including LLMs. We screen over 150 million events every day, and process this data to create real time alerting systems. We are still day 1 and have an exciting roadmap to build AI predictive maintenance models, deploy scalable causal inference solutions to measure the impact of events, and optimize the reliability of conveyance helping Amazon scale for years to come.

As an Applied Scientist II, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable, Artificial Intelligence models with automated training, validation, monitoring and reporting. You will work closely with other scientists and engineers to architect and develop new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. You will collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to design and implement scientific solutions for Amazon problems. Provide technical and scientific guidance to your team members. Contribute to the research community, by working with other scientists across Amazon and publish papers at peer reviewed journals and conferences.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure that enables stacked deep learning models to detect a variety of defects in fractions of a second;
- Design and implement anomaly detection and large language models to identify defects associated with customer packages;
- Experiment and scale models to thousands of sites worldwide;
- Collaborate with RME internal and external stakeholders and have a cross-team impact;
- Create and share with audiences of varying levels technical papers and presentation.

About the team
We are a growing team of applied, research, and data scientists working together with an engineering team and product managers to create the next-generation IIoT platform for the Reliability and Maintenance Engineering org.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- - Experience with modeling tools such as PyTorch, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Anomalib, etc.
- - Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and technical audiences.
- - Experience working with large real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.
- - Published relevant research work in academic conferences or industry circles.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.