Sr. Applied Scientist, Edge AI & Science

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DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health Wellness, Amazon Echo & Astro products.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon in developing its next generation SOC's for the machine learning enabled consumer products. We are looking for exceptional engineers to join the SOC development team and help develop the next generation of chips based on a revolutionary architecture. Work hard. Have Fun. Make History.

Key job responsibilities
What will you do?
- Contribute to a novel and comprehensive training platform custom-tailored for preparing models for edge applications
- Collaborate closely with compiler engineers, model developers, hardware architects and product teams to build the best ML centric hardware and software solutions for our devices
- Contribute to reference Model implementations, compression recipes, datasets, and evaluation scripts that enable self-service for other teams
- Train and compress custom Gen AI models that match or exceed SOTA benchmarks while meeting edge deployment constraints (memory, latency, power)
- Build tools for modeling and performance evaluation to enable power, performance, cost options and trade offs
- Publish in open source and present on Amazon's behalf at key ML conferences - e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, MLSys

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

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

Los Angeles County applicants:
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, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/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.

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