Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Photos

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Photos

The Amazon Photos team is seeking a world-class Principal Applied Scientist to join us and use AI to help customers relive their cherished memories. Our team of scientists have developed algorithms and models that power Amazon Photos features for millions of photos and videos daily.

With the recent advancements in Vision-Language models, Amazon Photos has completely re-thought the product roadmap and is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to make investments for the long-term while delivering on the short-term roadmap working closely with Product and Engineering. Our research themes include: foundational models, contrastive learning, diffusion models, few-shot and zero-shot learning, transfer learning, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, active learning and semi-automated data annotation, deep learning, and large scale image and video detection and recognition.

Key responsibilities include:

• Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility and often used as reference across organization
• 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

About the team: Amazon Photos is one of the main digital products offered to Prime subscribers along with Amazon Music and Amazon Video. AI-driven experiences based on image and video understanding are core to customer delight for the business.

Basic Qualifications

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 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

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred:

• 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

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