Senior Applied Scientist Stores Security jobs at Amazon in United States, Seattle

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
As a senior systems development engineer, you will work with a wide variety of functional groups and will be involved in the design and implementation of software systems for phased array antennas validation and test, as well as overall system integration:- Develop tools for characterizing antenna RF and system performance.
- Develop software and test rack automation to support production test stations.
- Support electrical and software bring-up, debug of new hardware.- Plan, develop and implement environmental test activities for phased array antennas.
- Implement DSP FPGA firmware to map high-level algorithms from Matlab or C to architecture-specific code.

- BS or MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience with C/C++ and Python or other scripting languages. Experience automating, building, and testing systems
- Experience with HW/SW bring up and debugging
- Experience working in a hardware lab with oscilloscopes, signal generators, power supplies, and other test equipment

- Solid fundamental CS / EE skill set with hands-on industry or university experience in embedded software development
- Knowledge of FPGA systems, GPIO/I2C/SPI and peripheral interfacing.
- Experience with RTL and FPGA development tools
- Experience with Matlab or tools alike
- Knowledge of Database systems

Key job responsibilities
- Develop breakthroughs is agentic architecture in areas such as autonomy, self-validation, and continuous learning.
- Mentor and guide junior scientists.
- Develop technology strategy and roadmap supporting product development
- Develop prototypes for key technology, oversee the productization of the prototype, and develop critical assessment for the prototype
- Write technical reports summarizing R&D progresses and communicate such progresses with stakeholders

- PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 8+ years of building models for business application experience
- 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: AI (NLP or multi-modality models), Deep Learning, LLM model training, graph learning, static code analysis, software engineering.

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

Amazon is looking for a talented Postdoctoral Scientist to join its AI Research on foundation models, large-scale representation learning, and distributed learning methods and systems for a one-year, full-time research position. At Amazon, you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and innovate on new representation learning solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists.Large-scale foundation models have been the powerhouse in many of the recent advancements in computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, recommendation systems, and time series modeling. Developing such models requires not only skillful modeling in individual modalities, but also understanding of how to synergistically combine them, and how to scale the modeling methods to learn with huge models and on large datasets. Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experiences in this space. We actively work on these areas:
* Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, training objective and curriculum design
* Distributed training, accelerated optimization methods
* Continual learning, multi-task/meta learning
* Reasoning, interactive learning, reinforcement learning
* Robustness, privacy, model watermarking
* Model compression, distillation, pruning, sparsification, quantizationIn this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Leverage machine learning models and advanced statistical techniques to extract valuable insights from historical data and comparable item information.
- Tackle data scarcity challenges by developing innovative approaches to maximize the utility of available data sources.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:• Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills.
• Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise.

* PhD in a relevant field, received within 2 years of starting the program.* Proven publication record in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, AI, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, or other related technical fields.* Experience in data science and quantitative research.* Proficiency in technologies relevant to the sub-field.

* Ability to independently deliver results in a fast-paced environment.* Publications at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences and/or journals.* Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.* Expert knowledge in modeling and performance, operationalization, and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategies.Required application materials:* CV, which lists all peer-reviewed publications and conferences.* Research statement that outlines your research achievements and future research interests.* A journal article or book chapter that demonstrates your domain expertise.

• Amazon Private Brands
• Consumer Electronics
• Consumables
• Consumer Behavior Analytics
• Fashion and Fitness
• Home Categories
• Marketing and Prime Technology
• Pricing and Promotions
• Shopbop
Key job responsibilities
Depending on your experience, interests and business needs, you will own the front-end, back-end, or full stack design and development of product features, building scale, efficiency, and differentiated customer experiences. We’re looking for software engineers passionate about building software solutions end-to-end, have strong software development experience delivering at scale solutions, and systems design skills. You should have a demonstrated ability delivering within a DevOps delivery model from scoping requirements, requirement analysis, design, development, test, CI/CD, security implementation, and operational excellence with the ability to work cross-functionally with Product Managers, business stakeholders and other tech teams through the actual launch of the project. You should also have experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.A day in the life
Work/Life Balance
Mentorship & Career Growth

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Key job responsibilities- Attainment of organizational performance goals and objectives relating to safety, security, availability, scaling, efficiency and cost
- Vendor management of Colo datacenter services providers to meet or exceed contracted performance SLA’s
- Safety, security, and availability incident response, incident management and incident resolution
- Continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods and tools

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in engineering, computer science or a related field, or relevant industry experience
- 10+ years of relevant management experience in data center operations, facility engineering operations, information technology critical environment facilities, advanced high-volume manufacturing or similar.
- Demonstrated track record in delivering complex projects
- Proven ability to hire, develop and manage high-performing technical teams
- Prior ownership of the operation of a mission-critical team and/or product
- Ability to operate independently as a manager of a geographically distributed management team
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Excellent analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills
- Fluency in Spanish and English

- Expertise in one or more continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma
- Substantial knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems in a critical or controlled environment.
- Broad knowledge of information technology infrastructure domains such as compute server platforms, storage server platforms, server components, network devices, technologies and architectures, IT service delivery principles and best practices.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

Key job responsibilities
* Partner with laboratory science teams on design and analysis of experiments
* Originate and lead the development of new data collection workflows with cross-functional partners
* Develop and deploy scalable bioinformatics analysis and QC workflows
* Evaluate and incorporate novel bioinformatic approaches to solve critical business problems

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 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 using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development