Applied Science Manager, Computer Vision, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) AI

Are you excited about developing generative AI and foundation models to revolutionize automation, robotics and computer vision? Are you looking for opportunities to build and deploy them on real problems at truly vast scale? At Amazon Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics we are on a mission to build high-performance autonomous systems that perceive and act to further improve our world-class customer experience - at Amazon scale. We are looking for scientists, engineers and program managers for a variety of roles.

This role will manage computer vision scientists on the AFT-AI team. They will manage scientists involved in a number of impactful, cross-org programs, including Foundation Models to support item understanding and robotic manipulation. This includes building multi-modal models and building computer vision systems able to reason about sequences of images or video taken of a scene. It includes using machine learning to understand placement of objects, decision-making and several kinds of defect detection. In addition, the work the scientists do will support a variety of business use cases in our fulfillment centers, which requires prototyping initial solutions, later leveraged for production systems at global scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Manage team of scientists working on computer vision solutions
- Work with the team to provide the best solutions for given problems
- Plan roadmap, long term vision for the team
- Communicate progress to stakeholders
- Hire and develop the career of individual scientists

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team
The AFT AI team has deep expertise developing cutting edge AI solutions at scale and successfully applying them to business problems in the Amazon Fulfillment Network. These solutions typically utilize machine learning and computer vision techniques, applied to text, sequences of events, images or video from existing or new hardware. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment, developing a research plan, creating and testing prototype solutions, and shepherding the production versions to launch.