Interested in Machine Learning? How about Amazon Echo, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU)? We’re building the services handling customer requests and integrating with the machine learning (ML) models behind Amazon Echo and AWS Lex. We’re working hard, having fun, making history; come join us! Alexa is the voice-based intelligence and personality powering Amazon Echo. Customers love the convenience of Alexa in their home, and Alexa is spreading to their car, hotels, wearables, and beyond. The Alexa AI NLU team is a group of scientists and developers working on spoken language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services. The team’s mission is to push the envelope in natural language understanding (NLU) in order to provide a natural, conversational, experience for our customers. We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, large scale services to support
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent · 2+ years of experience building production software systems · Programming experience in one or more object-oriented languages like Java, Python, C++, C#, Ruby, Objective C · Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.· Master's degree in Computer Science · Basic understanding of Machine Learning concepts. · Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.