Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Alexa Conversational Modelling Intelligence 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

459509263

You will be responsible for defining key research directions focusing on LLMs, adopting or inventing new NLP techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science10+ years of combined academic and research experience with a strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions.Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (Python, Java, etc..).Excellent written and spoken communication skills.

10+ years of experience building and deploying innovative NLP solutions at scale.Expert level skills focusing on Large-language-Models.Demonstrated Experience in training LLMs through PT, SFT, and LHF backed by top-tier publications.Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles in NLP top tier conferences.Experience delivering complex end-to-end global NLP solutions that run at very large scale.Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.