Tokyo Amazon


The JP Books - Manga team is looking for an Applied Scientist to participate in our AI related efforts to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers.


In this position, you will be expected to research, design and build/train/tune models and provide recommendations in areas including but not limited to natural language processing (automatic translation, summarization, extraction) and image processing (boundary detection, image understanding, image generation).

The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in the areas of Computer Vision, Translations and or Image understanding/generation.

This is the ideal role if you are excited about leveraging science for tangible business impact to the Manga books business.

Amazon encourages publications, and you will work within an international team of engineers, all based in Tokyo, Japan while collaborating with partner scientists in Tokyo and Seattle.

Key job responsibilities

As An Applied Scientist, Your Responsibilities Will Be

Spot opportunities for innovation using AI for the JP Manga business, and publish to internal or external conferences.
Work closely with other Books scientists and engineers to build, review and improve your model design proposals.

Partner with product managers and other business stakeholders, documenting and explaining your progress in business reviews, and being the technical voice in charge of your product.

Be active in the community, participating in science education/growth activities for Books and Amazon JP
Keep up to date with scientific development in related field

About The Team

Our team develops and owns the experience for Manga books on Amazon in Japan. We build products powering the solutions offered to publishers, authors and customers in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and business stakeholders to develop features that allow us to better serve our customers.

We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our team to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art.

Our mission is to establish Amazon Manga as the go-to destination for digital and print Manga.

Basic Qualifications

PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in computer vision, natural language processing or equivalent quantitative field
PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning
Business level Japanese language skills

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