Amazon Echo and Alexa are magical: you can ask for any music and it plays instantly. But it's still Day 1 for the voice-enabled music experiences, and we're looking for some Language Engineers to help us make it even better. As a member of the Amazon Music Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team, you will be responsible for leading the effort to invent and improve the ways that customers can ask for what they want to hear in Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music or in their Amazon Music library. You will create new Amazon Music voice features that will allow customers to discover new music and get to the music they would like to hear. The ideal candidate is interested in being part of a nimble team, passionate about innovating for customers, and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. The person has an attention
· Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field · · 3+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, philosophy of language · · Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup · · Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas · · Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language · Deep expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic meaning representation frameworks · Comfortable working with speech and text language data in multiple languages · · Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs ·