Our team's mission is to improve Shopping experience for customers interacting with Amazon devices via voice. We work with Alexa and multiple other teams to research and develop advanced state-of-the-art speech technologies.
Do you want to be part of the team developing the latest technology that impacts the customer experience of ground-breaking products?
Then come join us and make history.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a background in Machine Learning to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology.
As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to drive the state of the art in speech synthesis.
Position Responsibilities :
- Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for Speech and Language applications.
- Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation of Speech and Language techniques for novel applications.
- Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business.
- Mentor junior engineers and scientists.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)