Applied Science Manager, Translation Services

About the role

Translation Services is seeking an Applied Science Manager to own the technical vision and multi-year science roadmap spanning machine translation, multimodal content (image translation, video subtitling), and automated quality evaluation. This leader will manage scientists and MLEs, define research direction for novel problem spaces with limited industry precedent, and bridge science breakthroughs into production-ready systems operating at Amazon scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Work closely with business partners, applied scientists, software development engineers, and product managers to accelerate building solutions to expand translation capabilities
• Have significant influence on overall strategy by helping define science and engineering strategy, define product features, drive system architecture, and spearhead best-practices that enable a quality product
• Influence 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
• Possess creativity, curiosity, and excellent judgment to thrive in an environment of ambiguity

A day in the life

You will spend your days collaborating with scientists, developers, customers, and stakeholders, and converting business needs into data-driven solutions. You will support a team to design and execute science products. You will dive deep into the data and balance technical execution with longer term strategy. You will grow and develop your team.

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