Applied Scientist Ii, Alexa Customer Journeys

3 months ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC Full time

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

The Alexa Customer Journeys team is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Applied Scientist with 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, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems and knowledge graph, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences.
Key job responsibilities
- Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model-centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals
- Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information retrieval, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, compute, latency and quality
- Research in advanced customer understanding and behavior modeling techniques
- 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
- Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results
- Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- 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.



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