Amazon Applied Scientist II SPS Core Services 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

268773764

In this role, you will be a key owner within our cross-disciplinary team that includes Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Applied Scientists and execute on our 3 Year Plan. You will pioneer new technologies in NLP, machine translation, and machine learning. You will have ownership of the end-to-end development of solutions to complex problems from design to implementation and you will play an integral role in strategic decision-making. You will also work closely with other stakeholders such as engineers, operations teams and product owners to build ML pipelines, platforms and solutions that solve business problems.
Key job responsibilities
* Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of automated and scalable machine learning models, with a focus on machine translation
* Develop and/or apply statistics, NLP and machine learning experiments and methodologies to different applications
* Work closely with Scientists and Software Engineers on experimentations, evaluation and implementation
* Work closely with business partners to understand the goals and develop solutions to achieve such goals

- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)