Amazon Research Scientist Artificial General Intelligence - Data Services 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

599024354

We are looking for a Research Scientist with strong technical skills which includes coding and natural language processing experience in dataset construction, training and evaluating models, and automatic processing of large datasets. You will play a critical role in driving innovation and advancing the state-of-the-art in natural language processing and machine learning. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, language engineers, and other scientists.
Key job responsibilities
Specifically, the Research Scientist will:
• Ensure quality of speech/language/other data throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc.
• Clean, analyze and select speech/language/other data to achieve goals
• Build and test models that elevate the customer experience
• Collaborate with colleagues from science, engineering and business backgrounds
• Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions
• Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases

- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
- Experience with various machine learning techniques and parameters that affect their performance
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets