Machine Learning Engineer (NLP)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for experienced Machine Learning Engineer (NLP) for a technology team within Alexa search. Alexa search is part of our ongoing Alexa Information efforts focused on reinventing information extraction and retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We are looking for creative engineers to help design and develop systems that can process data at web scale to improve access to and retrieval of information in the context of Alexa user experiences and other Amazon services.

Successful candidates will work closely with Applied Scientists who specialize in areas such as natural language processing, text mining, search, and machine learning and will be involved in all stages of text processing and knowledge distillation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Experience with machine learning toolkits
· Experience with NLP algorithms and libraries
· Experience working with common Big Data infrastructure systems, such as Hadoop, Spark, EMR
· Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
· 4+ years of Software Development experience
· Experience developing with modern programming languages (Python, Java, C/C++), open-source technologies, and Linux.
· Experience with implementing and debugging multi-threaded and parallel applications
· Experience building web services and Internet applications (client or server side)