Data Scientist Amazon
Boston, MA

Job Description

We are seeking a Data Scientist to be part of the Spoken Language Understanding science team for Alexa Skills Kit. This role will work as part of our International Data team to deliver our technical strategy in developing and deploying machine learning solutions to our hardest customer-facing problems. Your work with directly impact the developer experience in building skills, as well as the customer experience when interacting with them.

This role requires working closely with Language Data Researcher, Language Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Product/Program Managers, to drive analysis and performance improvements for our speech and language technology. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, self-driven and constantly seeking new ideas to improvement performance.

Key responsibilities include:

* Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-language alignment/mapping, etc.
* Clean, analyze and select data to drive improvements related to high-level business goals
* Build and release models that elevate the customer experience and track impact over time
* Collaborate with colleagues from linguistics, science, engineering, and business backgrounds
* Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions
* Work with data engineer to develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases