Amazon Applied Science Director Delivery Foundation Model 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

882678015

Key job responsibilities- Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments
- Build and manage the model development roadmap in support of critical Last Mile Delivery use cases.
- Define goals for model development and adoption, and own all project-related communication to a diverse set of stakeholders.
A day in the life
As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following:
- Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure
- Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning
- Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference
- Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems- Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas

- PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of applied research experience.
- 10+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for production software systems.
- 7+ years of managing software and applied science teams.
- Extensive track record of leading technical projects.
- Demonstrated expertise in deep learning and model development.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience as first-author publications at major conferences
- Experience leading research initiatives in foundation models
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Experience bridging research with practical engineering implementation