Applied Science Manager, Translation Services

Description

Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and multi-year science roadmap spanning machine translation, multimodal content (image translation, video subtitling), and automated quality evaluation.
• 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.
• Work closely with business partners, applied scientists, software development engineers, and product managers to accelerate building solutions to expand translation capabilities.
• 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.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability for optimizing, developing, launching, and maintaining large-scale production systems
• Strong technical skills, a deep understanding of machine learning approaches, and a solid grasp on NLP and LLM techniques to solve complex language translation challenges
• Willingness to dive deep when needed, move rapidly with a bias for action, and get things done
• An entrepreneurial spirit, knowing how to deliver, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems
• Resourcefulness and willingness to learn on both the technical and business side

Skills

• Strong technical skills
• A deep understanding of machine learning approaches
• A solid grasp on NLP and LLM techniques
• Ability to optimize, develop, launch, and maintain large-scale production systems
• Willingness to dive deep when needed, move rapidly with a bias for action, and get things done
• An entrepreneurial spirit
• Resourcefulness and willingness to learn on both the technical and business side

Benefits

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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