The Alexa Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Interpretations team enables tens of thousands of internal and external developers to increase Alexa’s capabilities much more rapidly, in every language. We’re building a new team to support technology transfer and training for Alexa Domain teams to build their own NLU models, using the NLU Interpretations tools and services. Our team is made up of inspired product managers, strong technical leaders, and motivated, autonomous software engineers and scientists. As a Research Scientist on the team, you will help our customers build NLU models using our technology and help us launch a new product across the company. You will be diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. Other responsibilities include: · Help drive the ML models and technology choices that enable a world-class user experience · Utilize various metric sources to deliver rapid iterations of models · Propose new modeling solutions and run experiments
· Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, or related technical field · 1+ years industry experience with data mining and analytics techniques · 1+ years industry experience in programming in R, Python, SAS or similar languages · Graduate degree in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, Statistics or related field · 3+ years experience in data scientist, analyst or NLP specialist role with a large technology company · Experience in two or more of these or similar Natural Language Processing topics: word categorization and tagging, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation,