Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Shopping Conversation Foundation 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

240014562

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to drive the state of the art in speech synthesis.Position Responsibilities:
* Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for Speech and Language applications.
* Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation of Speech and Language techniques for novel applications.
* Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business.
* Mentor junior engineers and scientists.

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience in applied research
- Graduate degree (PhD or equivalent Master's) in fields such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Audio processing, TTS, ASR, NLU or Statistical modelling.

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
- - Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- - Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
- - Extensive experience in developing audio processing, speech synthesis and natural language processing models (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)