Research Scientist Amazon
Cambridge, MA

Job Description

We're building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Alexa and other Amazon products and services. Come join us!

As a Research Scientist in our Applied Modeling and Data Science team, you will be responsible for data-driven improvements and evaluation for our spoken language understanding models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology, particularly in developing predictive analytics models for user in continuously improving the Alexa experience for our customers.

You will:

* Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc.
* Clean, analyze and select data to achieve goals
* Build and release models that elevate the customer experience and track impact over time
* 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