Applied Science Director, Delivery Foundation Model

Job ID: Services LLC

Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team. You will work alongside world class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. Amazon seeks an exceptional Applied Science Director to lead the development of innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real world environments and leverages Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.

• Lead software developers and scientists developing generative, multi modal foundation models to support Amazon's worldwide delivery network.
• 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.
• Hire, develop and manage a team of talented scientists and engineers.

• 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.
• Drive technical discussions within the team and key stakeholders.
• Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas.
• Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands on contribution to technical solutions.

The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state of the art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real world scenarios.

• 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.

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