Applied Scientist Prime Air Navigation jobs at Amazon in United States, Washington, 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.

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.

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.The Senior Electric Propulsion Engineer will provide technical leadership within Kuiper's Propulsion Design Engineering team as a subject matter expert for the electric propulsion system. This position demands a combination of technical depth, leadership abilities, and systems engineering experience capable of driving innovation of spacecraft propulsion technologies that ultimately enable customer service via the Kuiper satellite constellation. In this role, you will advise test, manufacturing, and mechanical engineers on electric propulsion best practices. Your expertise will directly influence all aspects of propulsion system design and development, including propellant storage and delivery, magnetic circuit design, cathode design, propulsion system architecture, avionics requirements, thermal management, embedded software design, and in-flight concepts of operation (CONOPs).
Key job responsibilities
The Senior Electric Propulsion Engineer supports the system and design throughout the hardware development lifecycle, from conception, prototyping, design validation & test, through production manufacturing, and flight operations. Key responsibilities will include
- impact and influence the full scope of propulsion system design, development, and production including: propellant storage and delivery; thruster magnetic circuit design; cathode design; overall system architecture trades; Propulsion avionics requirements; thermal management; system integration; and propulsion embedded software
- perform detailed system performance and risk analyses to support design trades, risk assessments, and risk mitigation plans
- act with delegated design authority to approve: production non-conformances; changes in design, test, and systems engineering artifacts; and Concepts of Operations for the Kuiper Propulsion system
- identify and assess technical risks based on data and outcomes in development, production, and flight operations
- lead or support test execution for development, validation, and risk assessments - especially for integrated tests across multiple large vacuum chambers suitable for testing Hall effect thrusters
- define test plans & test requirements to meet development and production test objectives
- define procedures for in-flight responses to novel off-nominal scenarios, and directly support flight operations as neededA day in the life
The Senior Electric Propulsion Engineer will work within multi-disciplinary teams as the go-to source for electric propulsion knowledge. Teams will work on all aspects of propulsion system development, implementation and production and will require you, as propulsion expert, to ensure the key aspects of device operation are being properly considered and tested within constraints. You will aid in test planning, operation and data analysis, co-author test reports and disseminate impactful results.

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of experience with electric propulsion technologies through design or test

- Master's degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of developing electric propulsion technologies through design & test cycles
- Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Familiarity with electric circuit design
- Experience with finite element analysis for electromagnetic fields and/or fluid flow

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

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- 4+ years of applied research experience
- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language