Language Engineering Manager, AGI Data Services

About the role

Amazon is looking for a Language Engineering Manager to join our Artificial General Intelligence - Data Services organization. The role involves leading a cross-functional team of Language Engineers, providing technical and scientific guidance, and collaborating with other science and tech teams to introduce new tools or approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of Language Engineers
• Provide technical and scientific guidance to your team members in their tasks related to data creation and processing
• Lead improvement efforts to optimize existing data creation and sourcing processes or invent new ones
• Effectively collaborate with science, engineering, and business partners on large-scale programs
• Supporting the career development of your team members

Requirements

• Master’s or higher degree in a relevant field (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics)
• 5+ years’ experience in computational linguistics and language data processing
• Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup, especially complex data for AI Models
• Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
• Experience programming in Python or another scripting language
• 2+ years’ experience managing technical linguistic teams in the NLP field

Qualifications

• Explicit industry experience with language understanding systems or Large Language models or AI
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, especially with cross-disciplinary efforts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale data analytics

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.