DESCRIPTION
We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle, ensuring the devices can safely and efficiently navigate around pets, pedestrians and anything else in their path. The Amazon Scout team shares a passion for innovation using advanced technologies, a love of solving complex challenges, and a desire to impact customers in a meaningful way. We're looking for individuals who like dealing with ambiguity, solving hard, large scale problems, and working in a startup like environment. To learn more about Amazon Scout, check out our Amazon Day One Blog post here: http://amazon.com/scout
As a Manager of Software Development on the Perception team, you will have the opportunity to lead a team in developing new solutions to perception on the scout robot. In this job you will:
- Collaborate closely with software engineers, applied researchers and hardware teams to develop machine learning systems for robots.
- Take responsibility for technical problem solving, including creatively meeting product objectives and developing best practices.
- Interact with teammates in variety of roles to accomplish your goals.
- Identify and initiate investigations of new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate designs that deliver an exceptional user experience.
- Recruit, hire and develop applied scientists and software engineers.
- Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
- Interface with our internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
- Help develop long-term development and business technology strategies.
If you're entrepreneurial and want to build and own transformative technology-driven products, join us in making history.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning or other related fields
- 6+ years experience managing software development teams
- Experience developing careers with highly-skilled software engineers
- Ability to work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of coworkers.
- Understanding of computer science fundamentals such as data structures, object-oriented design and service-oriented architectures
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience defining organizational research and development practices in industry
- Experience tackling difficult, complex software and mathematical problems that do not have easy off-the-shelf solutions
- Experience in creating the right culture and environment to ensure a diverse group of people and skillsets can flourish and deliver true breakthrough science and innovation
- Experience developing perception or computer vision systems for Robots, Autonomous Cars or similar