Our team undertakes research together with multiple organizations to advance the state-of-the-art in speech technologies. We not only work on giving Alexa, the ground-breaking service that powers Echo, her voice, but we also develop cutting-edge technologies with Amazon Studios, the provider of original content for Prime Video. Do you want to be part of the team developing the latest technology that impacts the customer experience of ground-breaking products? Then come join us and make history.
We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a background in Machine Learning to help build industry-leading Speech, Language and Video technology.
As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to drive the state of the art in speech and vocal arts synthesis.
Position Responsibilities:
* Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for digital vocal arts applications.
* Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation and digital vocal and video arts techniques for novel applications.
* Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business.
* Mentor junior engineers and scientists.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Master's degree
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Experience in applied research
- Do you have experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals?
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
- Do you have experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing?
