Applied Science Manager, Translation Services

Key job responsibilities

• Work closely with business partners, applied scientists, software development engineers, and product managers to accelerate building solutions to expand translation capabilities.
• Help define science and engineering strategy, define product features, drive system architecture, and spearhead the best-practices that enable a quality product.
• Influence the development processes and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership and effective project management.
• Build a strong development team and develop career plans for the scientists and engineers reporting to you.

About the team

Translation Services is entering a phase where the problems ahead are fundamentally different from the problems we've solved. Our text translation stack is production-grade and serving 30+ language pairs across Retail. But the next frontier — image translation, video subtitle localization, long form text and automated quality evaluation — represents novel research problems at Amazon scale with limited industry precedent.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers