Research Scientist, Alexa Comms A.I. Team

Job description

DESCRIPTION

We are the Alexa Communications group, and our mission is to bring people closer together. We develop systems for a wide range of communication use cases and modalities. Our charter spans all conceivable communication situations and environments, ranging from announcements to family members that "dinner is ready" to business calls with clients. We are passionate about using technology to make interpersonal communication simpler and more effective.

As a Research Scientist on our team, you will be responsible for the natural language understanding models in one of our feature domains. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of novel products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will:
· Own the customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a specific domain of features,
· Build and release new models that elevate the customer experience and track the impact over time,
· Propose new modeling solutions and run experiments to prove their efficacy,
· Collaborate with colleagues from science, engineering, and business backgrounds,
· Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc,
· Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Either 2 years relevant experience coupled with an advanced degree or 5 years relevant experience without a degree
· Experience with machine learning models, data analysis tools and techniques, as well as understanding of the parameters that affect model performance
· Experience in Python or another scripting language; command line proficiency
· Exposure to version control systems, such as Git