Applied Scientist, Delivery Foundation Model

Job Description

Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models.

We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.

• Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data.
• Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries.
• Collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and efficiency of Amazon delivery network.
• Drive technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments.

• Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands‑on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure.
• Collaborate with fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi‑task learning.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infrastructure to support model training, evaluation, and inference.
• Contribute to focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems.
• Drive technical discussions within the team and with key stakeholders.
• Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas.
• Make significant hands‑on contributions to technical solutions.

The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real‑world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state‑of‑the‑art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real‑world scenarios.

We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance.

• PhD, or Master's degree and 1+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• 4+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience.
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing.

• Experience using Unix/Linux.
• Professional software development experience.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct,…