The Alexa Edge AI team under Alexa Ambient Computing Tech Organization is
looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a
strong deep learning background, to help build industry-leading technology with
computer vision, speech and multimodal perception models for various edge
applications.
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team, you will work with talented
peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state
of the art with multimodal models with an emphasis on computer vision. Your work
will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that
make use of CV technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources
and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances within perception
domain.
A day in the life
An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will support science solution
design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of
optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good
science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an
Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists
to put algorithms and models into production.
About the team
The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource
efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio
and speech) based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.
Basic Qualifications: - PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ 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 developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly
with respect to computer vision algorithms Preferred Qualifications: -
Experience in Vision Language Models, Audio-Video fusion and multi-modal LLMs
- Experience with optimizing computer vision models for on-device deployment
(pruning, quantization, distillation, etc.)
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and
technical audiences.
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