Amazon Language Engineer II Operations Team 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

389495675

The Alexa Shopping team is seeking a Language Engineer 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 Shopping 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, Editors, and program managers to ensure we're providing the best voice shopping experience for millions of our customers.As a Language Engineer, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects across Alexa Shopping experiences. You will collaborate with fellow Language Engineers, 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.You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other Language Engineers and Scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization.
Key job responsibilities- Produce and manipulate different types of language data, analyze and provide efficient solutions- 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- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities

- 3+ years of designing APIs and working on LLM development
- Experience in Python or another scripting languages
- Experience in Java basics
- Experience with database queries
- Experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Large Language Models
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, and dynamic work environment

- PhD in computational linguistics or equivalent field with computational analysis, or work experience equivalent
- Able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Expertise in Spanish or German language