Implementation scientist

1 month ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Full time
Applied Scientist II, Alexa Customer Journeys

The Alexa Customer Journeys team is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to lead the development and implementation of state-of-the-art ML systems for personalizing large-scale, high-quality conversational assistant systems.

As an Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of personalization techniques enabling conversational systems, particularly those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems, and knowledge graphs, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences.

Key job responsibilities
  1. Use deep learning, ML, and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for the development of language model-centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals.
  2. Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information retrieval, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allow effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, compute, latency, and quality.
  3. Research in advanced customer understanding and behavior modeling techniques.
  4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in personal knowledge aggregation, processing, modeling, and verification.
  5. Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results.
  6. Think Big about the arc of development of conversational assistant system personalization over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.
  7. Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
  2. PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
  3. Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language.
  4. Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Experience using Unix/Linux.
  2. Experience in professional software development.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

The base salary for this position ranges from $149,300/year up to $249,300/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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