You’ll use these to explore new and novel drone vehicle conceptual designs in both focused and wide open design spaces, with the ultimate goal of meeting our customer requirements. You’ll be responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining a suite of multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) tools across all aircraft design disciplines.
Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team! Our Prime Air Drone Vehicle Design and Test team within Flight Sciences is looking for an outstanding engineer to help us rapidly configure, design, analyze, prototype, and test innovative drone vehicles. If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (). How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and-most importantly-safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. What does a successful program look like? It looks like a partnership it looks like a true collaboration between Amazon and an HBCU. “Not only does that support help ensure the program launches smoothly,” Harrison noted, “It also goes a long way toward ensuring it can be a success. “Sometimes we told Amazon, ‘This idea is great, but if you did this it would be greater.’ And then they said, ‘Don't worry, we'll get you that’ and ‘OK, we can do that.’ I haven't seen that before.” Muhammad also emphasized that Amazon’s willingness to encourage and incorporate feedback from Hampton was a crucial part of the collaboration. It's not often that we get someone that comes in with that approach.” “We have a lot of industries that approach us in engineering and computer science. They asked, ‘What do you want and what do you need?’ Then they said, ‘Put something together that's going to benefit you and let us see how we can help you achieve that,’” Muhammad said. Our faculty is quite excited about this as well.” I look at this as a way not only to get back into the robotics space, but for both our faculty - and then subsequently our students - to build capacity in those other areas that are all tied together. "Quite a few of us have experience in AI, but we have not had as much experience in machine learning. We're also very excited about getting more engaged with AI and machine learning. “That was a great project that fell to the wayside, and it included a course in robotics that students really liked. “Several years back, we were engaged with a cross section of HBCUs in a robotics initiative to get our students interested in computer science through introducing them to robotics,” explained Jean Muhammad, chair of the Hampton computer science department. It also provided Hampton an opportunity to both revive a dormant project and to allow its faculty to expand their own knowledge. Hampton’s existing relationship with Amazon - its computer science students participate in AWS training and certification - provided an avenue to explore the robotics opportunity.
New programs with Georgia Tech and the University of Southern California are established existing Columbia University program expands. “That will allow Hampton to share the excitement of robotics and the excitement of engineering with those who may not have had exposure to it yet.” “This will not only build infrastructure inside the school, but it also provides funding for Hampton to go out into the community,” says Tye Brady, chief technologist for Amazon Robotics. The fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science, and related fields.Īmazon funding will assist with establishing a new research laboratory in an existing space a one-year faculty position dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning a senior capstone course where students will receive side-by-side mentorship from leading researchers, software developers, and engineers at Amazon and the expansion of kindergarten through grade 12 programming, including an annual drone camp aimed at encouraging high school and middle school students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue degrees in STEM and robotics.