Research Scientist, Alexa Speech

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Amazon Echo? We're building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. Come join us!

As a Research Scientist in our Alexa Hybrid Engine team, you will be responsible for data-driven improvements to our spoken language understanding models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology.

You will:
· 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.
· Clean, analyze and select data to gauge customer experience
· Build and release models that elevate the customer experience and track impact over time
· Collaborate with colleagues from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds.
· Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions to drive business decisions
· Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying and modeling infrastructure for both offline and online use cases

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Master's degree in a relevant field
· 3+ years experience with various data analysis and visualization tools
· Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language; command line usage
· Experience with various machine learning techniques and parameters that affect their performance