Amazon Applied Science Manager Alexa International Tech 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

198065014

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Science Manager in AIT you will:
* Lead and grow a team of Applied Scientists working to develop and evolve Large Language models powering Alexa+ for international locales and languages* Drive the development of scalable multi-lingual NLP and LLM solutions and develop frameworks to evaluate various aspects of LLM performance
* Partner with engineering teams to implement production-ready scientific solutions
* Recruit, mentor, and develop top scientific talent
* Foster a culture of innovation while maintaining high scientific standards
* Review and provide guidance on experimental design, methodology, implementation and continuous improvement of science solutions
A day in the life
* Review key metrics, goals and project progress from your team
* Provide direction and guidance to your team, and unblock or coarse correct as need be, to ensure science solutions are on track and delivered with high quality.
* Actively participate and contribute to launch readiness forums, leadership reviews and technical design reviews.
* Meet with product managers to align on roadmap priorities and scientific requirements
* Provide technical mentorship to team members on their projects
* Review and give feedback on scientific documentation and methodology
* Collaborate with engineering partners on implementation approaches
* Lead team meetings focused on scientific innovation and best practices
* Contribute through industry first research to drive the innovation forward.
* Engage with the broader Amazon science community to share learnings and stay current with latest developments

- 4+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application