Amazon Sr Applied Scientist Speech/NLP Content Localization 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

379812312

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.Key job responsibilities
We prefer candidates with experience in natural language understanding and machine learning. Familiarity with foundational models, speech synthesis and machine translation will be a plus. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you should be a strong communicator, able to describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will closely partner with the solution development teams, and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for business. Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science talent in the team is another important requirement.

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals in one of those areas (audio processing, natural language processing/understanding, machine learning)