Applied Scientist - Motion Planning & Controls jobs at Amazon

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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
The Software Engineer will contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of ReactNative, Java & C++ software across multiple digital surfaces for Kindle Readers and Applications.​ This hands-on position will engage your engineering capabilities and technical knowledge of software development while developing experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.- Responsible for the architecture of software solutions, working with and improving on current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, building new concepts and methodology, and the development of major routines and utilities.
- Designing and Building new features that are highly performant
- Preparation of technical requirements and software design specifications.
- Understanding the internals of graphics subsystems.
- Instilling best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedules.
A day in the life- ship and review C++, ReactNative or Java for reading features on Kindle E-Reader
- root cause issues and propose solutions

- 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 modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- 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
- Experience programming with C++.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you'll lead a team of talented engineers fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You'll be expected to leverage your deep technical expertise, coupled with a strong understanding of subscription business models, to develop and implement sophisticated retention strategies.As a senior leader in the organization, you'll also play a key role in shaping our overall technical direction, mentoring the next generation of engineering talent, and representing our technical capabilities to executive leadership and external partners.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
About the team
*Why AWS*
*Diverse Experiences*
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.*Work/Life Balance*
*Inclusive Team Culture*
*Mentorship and Career Growth*
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.

- B.S. in Electrical, Mechanical, or other related engineering degrees as well as 10+ years Controls related experience; or Associates degree and 12+ years of Controls related experience; or High School diploma with 15 years of Controls related experience
- 6+ years hiring, promoting, coaching, leading, and developing teams of controls professionals.
- 6+ years with industrial controls in critical environment (data center, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, oil & gas, petrochemical, laboratory, power, water etc.).
- 6+ years of general project or vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, and RFI and submittal tracking) associated with project execution.

- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, HVAC, or other related engineering degrees as well as ten (10) years related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent.
- Certified as a Professional Engineer (PE), LEED
- Prior AWS/Amazon experience
- 5+ Yr. Military Service

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.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.As part of the global controls team, you will work with highly motivated experts and innovators in the data center industry. You will be responsible for troubleshooting, project management, and maintaining the building management system (BMS) and electrical power monitoring system (EPMS). Using Amazon leadership principles, you will develop new processes and standards while innovating in the controls space. AWS Data centers have multiple components such as generators, uninterruptible power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches, chillers [air-cooled and water-cooled], pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAHs, air economizers, etc. All these components have local control systems that interact with each other via open and/or proprietary communications protocols. The BMS is the primary method of control of all mechanical systems within a data center. The EPMS is the primary method of monitoring all electrical systems within a data center.Key job responsibilities
• Train and assist internal customers and stakeholders with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of BMS and EPMS systems.
• Provide technical assistance and support to operations during life cycle of the data center. • Review results and action items from the quarterly maintenances for BMS and EPMS and take actions to get them resolved.
• Develop BMS & EPMS projects scope of work, schedule, budget, and level of efforts (LOE) to projects requested by customers and stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedule, finance and execution of BMS and EPMS improvement projects in AWS data centers.
• Assist in procurement related activities including request for quotation/proposals, responding to request for information, review of vendors proposal and issuance of purchase orders.
• Participate in AWS global on-call schedule to provide immediate BMS and EPMS technical support to in-service data centers. • Attend project related meetings, coordinate with project leaders and regularly report status to Controls and stakeholder’s management.
• Support Controls projects related commissioning activities in the data centers.
• Review, implement, troubleshoot and iterate on the controls sequence of operation (SOO) and provide necessary feedback to the design team.
• Develop and modify controls logic programming and graphical user interfaces.
• Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements and navigate challenging situations.
• Financially manage BMS and EPMS service contracts.
• Frequently visit (locally) assigned in-operation data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.
About the team
*Why AWS*
*Diverse Experiences*
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all 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.*Work/Life Balance*
*Inclusive Team Culture*
*Mentorship and Career Growth*
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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering science plus 5+ years of relevant controls experience, OR 10+ years of relevant controls experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years with industrial controls in critical environment (data center, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, oil & gas, petrochemical, laboratory, power, water etc.).
• 4+ years of general project or vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, and RFI and submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution.

• MS in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Controls/Automation)
• Experience designing, configuring, programming, installing, troubleshooting or servicing HVAC Controls or Electrical SCADA systems application specific controllers, software and networks.
• Experiencing using common industrial communication protocols (MQTT, BACnet and/or MODBUS).
• Demonstrated understanding of engineering documentation, electrical and mechanical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements, and navigate difficult situations.
• Experience designing data centers or critical MEP infrastructure
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE), or certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Prior AWS/Amazon experience
• 4+ Yr. Military Service