Interested in Amazon Alexa? Come work on it. We’re building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Alexa and other Amazon products and services. We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us! Our NLU team is looking for a Language Engineer to join our science team in the area of speech and language data processing. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us analyze and implement complex problems. In this role, you will be a key member in new feature development supporting a variety of software engineering and science teams. Specifically, the Language Engineer will: - Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data - Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new areas - Write grammars and build FSTs - Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities - Handle competing requests from a range of data customers - Collaborate with other Language
- Master or higher degree in a relevant field - 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, or syntax - Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup - Experience with database queries and data analysis processes, and Unix - Experience programming in Perl, Python, or another scripting language - Expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation frameworks - Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs - Experience with statistical language moeling - Practical knowledge of version control and agile development