Manager, CV/ML, Robotics AI (Seattle, WA)

Do you want to have a worldwide impact in Robotics? The Robotics AI team at Amazon builds high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. We invent and scale AI systems for robotics in fulfillment. Our mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently with the clutter and uncertainty of real-world fulfillment centers. We hire and develop subject matter experts in robotics with a focus on computer vision, deep learning, intelligent control, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning.

We are seeking hands-on, Software Development Manager to own scaling perception systems for production. You will be deep in building perception algorithms, deployment of perception systems, ML lifecycle management. A successful candidate has excellent technical depth in Computer vision/ Machine Learning/ Perception systems, great communication skills, and a drive to achieve results in a collaborative team environment.

You should enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, haven’t been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, we guarantee you’ll get opportunities to be a fearless disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables AI and robotics to significantly impact the lives of millions of consumers.

Key job responsibilities
* As a manager, you will be responsible for delivering and maintaining critical perception capabilities in the fulfillment network.

* You will prioritize being a great people manager: motivating, rewarding, and coaching your diverse team is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.

* You will keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions.

* You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.

* Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Use project management skills to deliver product roadmap items and other cross-team projects.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
MS or PhD and 4+ years of relevant industry experience in deploying robotics into production environments.
Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technologies
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, problem-solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills, ability to convey rigorous mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts.



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