Interested in delivering Natural Language Understanding (NLU) engineering solutions for Alexa working closely with a team of scientists in the Machine Learning (ML) space? The Amazon Alexa NLU team is a group of scientists and software engineers working on natural language solutions that push the envelope in the NLU space, in order to revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon's products and services. Products such as Amazon Echo, Echo Show, and Fire TV are illustrative of the user-delighting spoken language solutions Amazon is building.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying distributed machine learning systems and large-scale data mining solutions for natural language understanding (NLU). You will collaborate closely with a team of speech and machine learning scientists to influence our overall strategy, and define the team's road map. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers.
A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the development and maintenance of key Machine Learning systems and infrastructure for NLU in Alexa; deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules * Actively participate in defining strategy, roadmaps and architecture for the team's products * Work with other team members to investigate best design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility * Mentor and help develop junior engineers, and demonstrate best development practices
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