Amazon Science
Applied Scientist, Silicon and Systems Group Edge AI
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Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like Echo, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and other consumer devices. We are looking for exceptional scientists to join our Applied Science team to advance the state-of-the-art in developing efficient multimodal language models across our product portfolio. Through close hardware-software integration, we design and train models for resource efficiency across the hardware and software tech stack.
The Silicon and Solutions Group Edge AI team is looking for a talented Applied Scientist who will develop new evaluation methods for multimodal language models and agents for our devices, including audio and vision experiences.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineers and scientists to advance the state of the art in multimodal model evaluations for devices, including audio, images, and videos
- Invent and validate reliability for novel automated evaluation methods for perception tasks, such as fine-tuned LLM-as-judge
- Develop and extend our evaluation framework(s) to support expanding capabilities for multimodal language models
- Analyze large offline and online datasets to understand model gaps, develop methods to interpret model failures, and collaborate with training teams to enhance model capabilities for product use cases
- Work closely with other scientists, compiler engineers, data collection, and product teams to advance evaluation methods
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A Day in the Life
As a Scientist with the Silicon and Solutions Group Edge AI team, you'll contribute to innovative methods for evaluating new product experiences and discover ways to enhance our model capabilities and enrich our customer experiences. You'll have opportunities to collaborate across teams of engineers and scientists to bring algorithms and models to production.
About The Team
Our Edge AI science team brings together our unique skills and experiences to deliver state-of-the-art multimodal AI models that enable new experiences on Amazon devices.
Basic Qualifications
- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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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