Research Scientist

2 days ago


Old Toronto, Canada Amazon Full time
Unlock the Future of Personalized Experiences

We are a part of Amazon Alexa Devices organization with a mission to delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep them informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden.

We are developing an advanced system using Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware speech assistant.

The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions.

Requirements
  • A PhD or Master's degree and 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languages
Preferred Qualifications
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, or Mathematics with specialties in natural language processing, recommendation systems, information retrieval
  • 2+ years experience in building machine learning or deep learning models for large scale customer facing products or features
  • Solid software development experience
  • Good written and verbal communication skills

Estimated Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 per year, based on national averages for senior software engineer positions.



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