Language Engineering Manager, AGI Data Services

Amazon • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Amazon is looking for a Language Engineering Manager to join our Artificial
General Intelligence - Data Services organization. We are seeking a candidate
with strong analytical skills and extensive language technology experience,
especially in the area of data production for AI and Large Language Models.

As a Language Engineer Manager, you will manage a cross-functional team of
Language Engineers who support and lead efforts in complex, novel, and/or
large-scale data creation or processing for the use in Artificial Intelligence
(AI) models.

You will take part in setting up team goals and will be responsible for your
team delivering these goals. You will collaborate with other science and tech
teams to introduce new tools or approaches, always on the lookout to improve our
processes and velocity.

The successful candidate will have an established background in developing
diverse, complex, and large-scale datasets for AI, a strong technical ability,
demonstrated experience in people management, excellent project management
skills, great communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a
fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Master’s or higher degree in a relevant field (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics)
• 5+ years’ experience in computational linguistics and language data processing
• Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup, especially complex data for AI Models
• Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
• Experience programming in Python or another scripting language
• 2+ years’ experience managing technical linguistic teams in the NLP field

Nice To Haves

• Explicit industry experience with language understanding systems or Large Language models or AI
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, especially with cross-disciplinary efforts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Project management experience
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale data analytics

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of Language Engineers
• Provide technical and scientific guidance to your team members in their tasks related to data creation and processing
• Lead improvement efforts to optimize existing data creation and sourcing processes or invent new ones
• Effectively collaborate with science, engineering, and business partners on large-scale programs
• Supporting the career development of your team members

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

What This Job Offers

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