Amazon Alexa AI is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. Our mission is to push the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Audio Signal Processing, text-to-speech (TTS), and Dialog Management, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. As an Applied Scientist you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.
· Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, or Mathematics with specialization in natural language processing or machine learning. · 1+ year experience with programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl or Python.· PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, or Mathematics with specialization in natural language processing or machine learning · Experience in building natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects) · Solid Machine Learning background and familiar with standard machine learning techniques · Scientific