Applied Scientist -II, Wireless Algorithms and SW

Mid • On-site

$136,000 - $223,400/yr

Sunnyvale, CA

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
Roles & Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Applied Scientist in wireless to join our team. As part of the larger technology team working on new consumer technology, your work will have a large impact to hardware, internal software development, ecosystem, and ultimately the lives of Amazon customers. You must love building technologies & algorithms to deliver high quality wireless sensing & communication, and possess end-to-end expertise in signal processing and protocols. You must have a feel for what a good consumer experience should sound like.

Key job responsibilities
In your role, you will
· Statistical modeling and machine learning advancements to data analytics for customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings. Work in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are leaders in the field. Take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer facing products
. Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products
· Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test by making architecture-cost trade-offs decisions.
· Develop and manage the roadmap, long-term vision and portfolio of new technology initiatives for the team
· Create evaluation methods to track the actual performance of devised solutions in production systems, identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal & external teams to improve the solution with new features.
· Improve, MAC, and link-layer scheduling algorithms
· Be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment and provide technical and scientific guidance to your peers.
· Communicate effectively with senior management as well as with colleagues from science, engineering, and business background
· Integrate vendor hardware and software stacks
· Mentor team members for their career development and growth

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's 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
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon

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