Senior Design Technologist, Visual Innovation Team
DESCRIPTION
Want to build at the cutting edge of immersive shopping experiences? The Visual Innovation Team (VIT) is at the center of all advanced visual and immersive content at Amazon. We're pioneering VR and AR shopping, CGI and GenAI. We are looking for a Design Tecnologist who will help drive innovation in this space who understands technical problems the team may face from an artistic perspective and provide creative technical solutions.
This role is for if you want to be a part of:
- Partnering with world-class creatives and scientists to drive innovation in content creation
- Developing and expanding Amazon’s VIT Virtual Production workflow.
- Building one of the largest content libraries on the planet
- Driving the success and adoption of emerging experiences across Amazon
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Design Technologist with a specialty in workflow automation using novel technologies like Gen-AI. You will prototype and deliver creative solutions to the technical problems related to Amazon visuals. The right person will bring an implicit understanding of the balance needed between design, technology and creative professionals — helping scale video content creation within Amazon by enabling our teams -- to work smarter, not harder.
Design Technologists in this role will:
- Act as a bridge between creative and engineering disciplines to solve multi-disciplinary problems
- Work directly with videographers and studio production to develop semi-automated production workflows
- Collaborate with other tech artists and engineers to build and maintain a centralized suite of creative workflows and tooling
- Work with creative leadership to research, prototype and implement the latest industry trends that expand our production capabilities and improve efficiency
A day in the life
As a Design Technologist a typical day will include but is not limited to coding and development of tools, workflows, and automation to improve the creative crew's experience and increase productivity. This position will be focused on in house video creation, with virtual production and Gen-Ai workflows. You'll collaborate with production teams, observing, empathizing, and prototyping novel solutions. The ideal candidate is observant, creative, curious, and empathetic, understanding that problems often have multiple approaches.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
- Have coding samples in front end programming languages
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
- Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of databases and AWS database services: ElasticSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB
- Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
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 $138,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/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.