Applied Scientist III, Alexa Edge AI

About the role

The Alexa Edge AI team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative senior applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning and speech processing techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading product used every day by people you know.

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently
• Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products
• Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents
• Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test
• Be proactive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of applied research 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)

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.