Data Scientist - NLP Amazon
Irvine, CA

Job Description

There's a revolution brewing to bring convenience, simplicity, efficiency, and fun to our lives, and you can be a part of it! We are hiring a Speech Scientist to be a part of the team that's creating customer experiences to discover, personalize, and acquire Alexa Skills for devices such as Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV. If you're not familiar with Alexa and Skills you can learn more here: https://amazon.com/alexaskills.

The Amazon Alexa Skills Store is aggressively seeking a Research Scientist with a background in NLP and wants to grow their career in that direction. As a member of a cross-functional team, you will use massive amounts of real-time and historical user data to research, develop and automate models for semantic understanding, text similarities and grammars. Working with a team of software development engineers, a successful candidate has a bias for action and is most comfortable when testing their hypotheses using heterogeneous datasets. You will be expected to challenge current methods while enriching the world's most advanced speech platform.