Language Data Scientist Ii, Alexa Customer Journeys

1 week ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03 Full time

2+ years of data scientist experience
- 2+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree

The Alexa Customer Journeys team is seeking a Language Data Scientist with experience in the field of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Large Language Models, as well as expertise in handling large data sets and strong analytical skills. You will play a critical role in innovative projects by driving design of Alexa features. The key responsibilities are to generate high-quality data and to run and evaluate experiments, which involves prompt engineering our Large Language Model for API delivery. You will work closely with engineers, scientists, and program managers to ensure we're providing the best Alexa experience for millions of our customers.
As a Language Data Scientist, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects across Alexa experiences. You will collaborate with fellow Language Data Scientists, Program Managers, and stakeholders in science, engineering, and product teams to understand the role data plays in developing data sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs to assess data quality and measurement.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with scientists and software engineers to help design APIs and evaluate performance of LLM's
- Produce and manipulate different types of language data, analyze and provide efficient solutions
- Design and lead a data collection; define scope and target, provide a guideline and training, guide teams cross sites to meet the quality bar, and run evaluation of data for hand off
- Engineer prompts to guide generative AI to produce desired outputs in context
- Automate operations and perform data analysis using Python or other scripting language
- Advocate strict adherence to annotation guidelines
- Test and deploy changes to Alexa's language understanding codebase
- Identify and solve production issues that are impacting the Alexa customer experience
- Collaborate with other linguists, scientists, and designers in creating optimal solutions to elevate the customer experience
- Own the customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a specific domain of features
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities
- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

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