What makes this role unique
End-to-end ownership – You will analyse business problems, map them to science plans, and design and develop solutions from ideation to production. We are owners of the full science lifecycle.
Applied science with a research edge – While our focus is on delivering applied science solutions that drive measurable business impact, our team actively pushes the state of the art in areas such as computer vision and Generative AI.
Hands-on execution – We need scientists who thrive in building, experimenting, and shipping.
What are we looking for?
A scientist who can independently analyse any business problem and design a rigorous science approach to solve it
Strong hands-on engineering skills — you build and ship, not just theorise
Deep expertise in one or more of: computer vision, generative AI, recommendation systems, ranking, or NLP
Experience taking ML models from research to production at scale
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to structure complex, undefined problems
A passion for customer-centric innovation and measurable impact
A strong communicator capable to adapt the message from a science audience, to engineering or leadership
Key job responsibilities
Analyse complex business problems and translate them into well-defined science plans with clear milestones and success criteria
Design, develop, and deliver ML/AI models end-to-end — from research and prototyping through to production systems at Amazon scale and extending solutions going beyond the state of the art
Work with state-of-the-art models in computer vision, ranking and generative AI to power new customer experiences globally
Own major science challenges for the team, driving solutions from ideation through experimentation to production deployment
Collaborate with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world to deliver integrated solutions
Influence scientific direction and best practices across the team
Maintain high quality standards on team deliverables
Contribute to expanding the state of the art in computer vision, ranking and GenAI through publications and internal knowledge sharing
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
PhD and experience in Computer Vision, Generative AI, Ranking, Deep Learning, Recommending
Systems, Natural Language Processing or related field
Experience using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development
Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms
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