Job summary
AWS Textract team is looking for an experienced and capable engineering leader to lead Textract engineering team in Bellevue. Amazon Textract (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/), as a product goes beyond simple OCR to extract complex structures like tables, key-value pairs, and other shapes of structured data from a document using deep learning techniques.
As a leader on this team, you will be responsible for a deep learning powered document processing engine which can process billions of pages and can cater to multiple products & business verticals! You will manage and be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects, deliver large scale systems, design new software systems at the cutting edge of distributed systems/machine learning and have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position.
This position within the Amazon AI team presents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology, the product, and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, an ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a high-performing team, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.
Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the engineers, applied scientists to architect and develop the best design and approach.
• Lead an engineering group that comprises of Software development engineers.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to leadership
• Develop the long-term strategy for your solutions and translate that into an achievable road-map/action plan
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Management of staffing, mentoring, growing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

• Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science with specialization in machine learning / computer vision
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building scalable infrastructure software for commercial online services
• Experience in defining processes and establishing mechanisms that improves the efficiency of software development for customers and developers
• Programming in Python, Java, C and/or C in a Linux environment
• Experience with working on AWS services (S3, DynamoDB, EC2)

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