Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Just-Walk-Out Science Team

As part of the AWS Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

The Team

Just Walk Out (JWO) is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkoutyou just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store take what they want from our selection of fresh delicious meals and grocery essentials and go!

Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When youre done shopping you can just leave the store. Shortly after well charge your account and send you a receipt. Check it out at Designed and custom-built by Amazonians our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision sensor fusion and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision machine learning distributed systems and hardware design.

Key job responsibilities
Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment thats more startup than big company. Well need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision image recognition machine learning real-time and distributed systems.

As a Sr. Applied Scientist you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other scientists. You will be the thought leader of the team. You will tackle challenging novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative youll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity thats higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that frankly havent been solved at scale before - anywhere. Along the way we guarantee that youll learn a ton have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

A key focus of this role will be developing and implementing advanced visual reasoning systems that can understand complex spatial relationships and object interactions in real-time. Youll work on designing autonomous AI agents that can make intelligent decisions based on visual inputs understand customer behavior patterns and adapt to dynamic retail environments. This includes developing systems that can perform complex scene understanding reason about object permanence and predict customer intentions through visual cues.

About the team
AWS Solutions

As part of the AWS solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

About AWS

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- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters 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

- Experience in visual design expertise with ability to produce fresh simple elegant and exceedingly usable layouts and interactions and iconography
- Demonstrated experience in AI agent architecture design including decision-making frameworks and behavioral modeling;
- Experience with advanced computer vision techniques including scene graph generation visual relationship detection and spatial reasoning
- Knowledge of modern visual-language models and multi-modal AI systems
- Experience implementing reinforcement learning for autonomous agent behavior
- Experience in professional software development

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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260000/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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