Applied Scientist, Computer Vision for Transportation

Amazon.com Services LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Applied Scientist with deep computer vision expertise to turn visual data into automated, operational decisions across the Middle Mile network. You will develop, train, and productionize CV models, owning the scientific approach from problem formulation to production.

You will work with scientists, product owners, and engineering teams to design rigorous experiments, launch models to production, and impact asset condition, inspections, and visual

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in professional software development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply visual perception and representation learning across image and video domains, including recognition, detection, segmentation, and tracking, with deep spatial and temporal reasoning enabled by modern deep learning and foundation-model architectures.
• Own large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and learning from heterogeneous or weakly supervised data, including self-supervised and semi-supervised techniques.
• Tackle real-world CV challenges at scale: large unlabeled datasets, class imbalance, high visual variability, and inconsistent capture conditions.
• Partner with product/program, operations, and engineering stakeholders to translate operational problems into well-defined CV objectives with measurable success criteria.
• Design rigorous evaluation frameworks with explicit precision/recall tradeoffs and operating-point selection tied to real-world business cost, including the cost asymmetry between false negatives and false positives.
• Build and maintain custom training and inference pipelines, and partner with engineering teams to deploy models into production.
• Frame ambiguous operational problems from first principles and select the right approach for each, applying CV where it's the best tool and other machine learning or simpler methods where they are not.

Skills

ML models

CV algorithms

Programming (Python/Java/C++)

Software development

Education

PhD or Master's + CS/CE/ML experience

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Applied Scientist with deep computer vision expertise to turn visual data into automated, operational decisions across the Middle Mile network. You will develop, train, and productionize CV models, owning the scientific approach from problem formulation to production.

You will work with scientists, product owners, and engineering teams to design rigorous experiments, launch models to production, and impact asset condition, inspections, and visual