You: “Alexa, I’m looking for a job where I can build products straight out of science fiction.” Alexa: “I have found matching jobs for you in the Alexa Info team in Seattle USA. What role are you looking for?” You: “I’d like to work on making you even smarter than you are today.” Alexa: “Wonderful. There are multiple roles in Seattle where you can do that, here are the details … ” We are forming a joined team between Alexa Info and Product Graph to attack one of the most challenging problems across the company, that is to make Alexa smarter. Our focus in the joined team combines natural language understanding, acquiring large volumes of structured knowledge, and building autonomous machine reasoning to allow our customers to get answers to their questions in the most natural way possible. We’ve solved many complex problems to get to where we are today, but there are still plenty of challenges ahead of us, and Alexa is getting smarter every day. The problems we solve in this Seattle team
· A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience; · 5+ years of Software Development experience; · Experience building large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality distributed systems and software products · 2+ years experience managing complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact · 2+years software development experience in Linux, Java, AWS, S3, SQS · Master or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline. · Experience on big data processing like Apache Spark · Experience