Applied Scientist II, Alexa Edge AI

Amazon • Boston, MA

12d • $142,800 - $193,200 • Onsite

About The Position

The Alexa Edge AI team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning and speech processing techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading product used every day by people you know. As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to develop novel machine learning algorithms to advance the state of the art in speech and audio processing.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 2+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• 2+ years of building models for business application experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

Nice To Haves

• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently
• Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products.
• Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents
• Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test.
• Be proactive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level