Workplace Safety Vision Scientist — Production ML

Amazon

Tennessee

On-site

USD 136,000 - 184,000

Full time

14 days+
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Health insurance
401(k) matching
Parental leave
Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to develop computer vision and ML models for workplace safety, deployed at scale across global facilities. You will work on activity recognition, anomaly/object detection, and risk prediction using video, image, and sensor data, collaborating with engineers to bring models from experimentation to production.

You will stay current with CV/DL research, communicate findings to diverse stakeholders, and contribute to a culture of rigorous science and fast

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
  • PhD, or Masters degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy computer vision and machine learning models for workplace safety applications (e.g., activity recognition, anomaly detection, pose estimation, object detection)
  • Develop and iterate on model architectures using deep learning frameworks, running experiments on large-scale video, image, and sensor datasets
  • Collaborate with software engineers to productionize models - optimizing for inference latency, accuracy, and reliability in edge and cloud environments
  • Analyze operational data to identify patterns and signals indicating safety risks, and translate findings into actionable model improvements
  • Stay current with the latest research in computer vision, deep learning, and related fields, and evaluate applicability to safety use cases
  • Communicate findings and technical approaches clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through documents, presentations, and design reviews
  • Contribute to the team's scientific culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship

Skills

Java
C++
Python
Algorithms

Education

PhD or Masters +4 years CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to develop computer vision and ML models for workplace safety, deployed at scale across global facilities. You will work on activity recognition, anomaly/object detection, and risk prediction using video, image, and sensor data, collaborating with engineers to bring models from experimentation to production.

You will stay current with CV/DL research, communicate findings to diverse stakeholders, and contribute to a culture of rigorous science and fast

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