Development Engineer – Building the future Do you want to develop software supporting the community of developers working on next generation Alexa Skills? If so, join us on the Alexa Tech team in Bellevue, WA as Sr ML Scientist; an innovative and growing part of Amazon.com, Alexa COPS organization. We’re a group of talented engineer and scientists who are empowered and driven to build world class experiences for both developers and end users. We are continuing to innovate in the monitoring and analytics space and have some very exciting plans for the future. This is a rare opportunity to join a team in the initial phase of our design/development and directly influence our long-term strategy and success. We are passionate about building highly scalable distributed systems to support the skill developer community. Our team is responsible for ensuring the highest quality Developer and Customer Experience and is tasked with building a responsive, high performance services and world-class user
Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, Statistics or related field · 5+ year of experience in two or more of these or similar Natural Language Processing topics: word categorization and tagging, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, topic modeling; contextual text mining, application of machine learning to NLP, semantic similarity, phrasal semantic analysis, text matching and similarity, word embedding, lexicon normalization, named entity recognition · Experience with data mining, and analytics techniques · Experience in programming in R, Python, SAS or similar languages