Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Knowledge Engineer - Data Extraction, Amazon Alexa

  • Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • IT development

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At the intersection of AI and natural language understanding, voice-assistant technology is one of the most exciting industries to work in today. Part of its appeal lies in a relatively undefined scope: the nature of a nascent market dictates challenges and opportunity often lacking in more developed fields. Creating advanced personal assistants means understanding how to address the many ways a user can ask a single question, and appropriately inferring intent from metadata such as a customer's location.

At Alexa, we experience those challenges every day. Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice service, an intelligent assistant that powers groundbreaking devices such as Echo and FireTV. As well as influencing how customers interact with devices in their home, Alexa is shaping the way knowledge is consumed.

That's where you come in. We're looking for Knowledge Engineers to join us in sunny Santa Barbara and help us expand Alexa's knowledge base through smarter and more scalable data extraction from large data sources. As a Knowledge Engineer in this role, you will be responsible for solving problems like figuring out what the most valuable facts from millions of Wikipedia pages are, or how to use Amazon's vast catalog of product data to answer questions on Alexa. You will own all aspects of a product launch, including ideation, prioritization, development, and post-launch metric monitoring, all with the goal of making Alexa the smartest assistant in the world.

In this role, you will:
· Design methods to prioritize where Alexa needs to “become smarter”
· Prototype and scale new data extraction strategies to expand Alexa's knowledge from large data sources like Wikipedia
· Develop and manage complex data pipelines
· Closely monitor specific KPIs and drive improvements in Alexa's answering capability
· Partner with software developers, product managers, and business leaders to enhance Alexa's key functions worldwide
· Have the opportunity to drive new customer experiences, all the way from ideation to launch (e.g. what's the best way to answer exploratory questions like “Alexa, tell me about California during the Gold Rush”)

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree
· Experience working on simultaneous projects with cross-functional teams

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