Job Description

Description

Are you ready to drive the next generation of shopping innovations at Amazon? When words fail to describe exactly what customers are looking for, they often turn to other methods such as camera-based search, photo-based search or augmented reality to view products in their own living spaces.

Starting in 2009, the Visual Search team has launched many visual search solutions on the Amazon App. Our solutions use computer vision and machine learning/deep learning to help customers complete their shopping missions more easily. We use advanced technologies to leverage our vast catalog of images to improve the experience of Amazon customers. We are a full stack shop, and our team capabilities cover the whole solution spectrum, ranging across applied science (Computer Vision and Deep Learning), large scale engineering services, product management, UX design, and mobile app development for iOS and Android. However, it’s still Day 1, and this is your chance to make history in the new era of shopping.

The Visual Search & Augmented Reality team is looking for a talented, creative, and customer-obsessed software development manager to help build our next generation of customer-facing products. You will bring technical vision and leadership to Amazon’s Visual Search & AR team and ensure that our technology is unparalleled in terms of quality, capability, innovation, and customer experience.

In This Role You Will

• Attract, excite and retain top talent in software and computer vision engineering.
• Engage closely with the team and provide technical leadership and strategic direction.
• Work with product management to establish and oversee projects and roadmap initiatives that enable the creation and improvement of core computer vision based services for both near-term and long-term applications that serve Amazon.com customers.
• Work directly with the senior management team to guide strategic investments in computer vision.
• Build a technical roadmap, set of deliverables, and strategy to ship your solutions to millions of Amazon customers.
• Drive engineering and operational excellence within the team.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• Experience supervising the design, development, test, release and support of real-world products for customers.
• Proficiency with Python/Java/C++ and SDE design patterns to be able to participate in interviews and code reviews.
• A proven history of shipping industrial or commercial software solutions at scale.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• A strong track record of iterative design, working closely with customers and peers and developers from inception through implementation.
• Experience with big data, cloud computing, or large-scale distributed systems for commercial online services that require high availability and performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including non-technical
• Experience with agile/scrum
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on Computer Vision and Augmented Reality based applications and services
• The ability to manage time deftly, give critical feedback in a timely manner, and encourage team members’ personal growth.
• Experience writing product proposals and technical strategy documents.
• Experience with deep learning techniques and their application to computer vision.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A1510573