Applied Scientist II, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies AI, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT)
DESCRIPTION
Are you excited about cutting edge generative AI and LLMs? Are you looking for opportunities to build and deploy them to solve real problems at truly vast scale? At Amazon Fulfillment Technologies AI, we are on a mission to build solutions that perceive, understand, and act to further improve our world-class customer and associate experience - at Amazon scale.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist who will help us build next level systems to improve the safety of our warehouses with the help of generative AI and LLMs. Together, we will be pushing the state of the art of one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon's Fulfillment Network.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will dive deep into our fulfillment network, understand complex processes and channel your insights to build large scale deep learning and GenAI models (LLMs) that will be able to understand the state of our buildings and work with our warehouse teams to help identify and mitigate safety risks.
You will face a high level of research ambiguity and problems that require creative, ambitious, and inventive solutions. You will work with and in a team of applied scientists to solve cutting edge problems going beyond the published state of the art that will drive transformative change on a truly global scale.
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!
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.
The AFT AI team has deep expertise developing cutting edge AI solutions at scale and successfully applying them to business problems in the Amazon Fulfillment Network. These solutions typically utilize machine learning and computer vision techniques, applied to text, sequences of events, images or video from existing or new hardware. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment, developing a research plan, creating and testing prototype solutions, and shepherding the production versions to launch.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 1+ years of building models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience working with large language models and generative AI
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience working with large language models and generative AI in a production environment
- Experience with reinforcement learning & optimization
- Experience with finetuning LLMs and foundation models
- Expertise with causal reasoning
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.