Applied Scientist Manager - AWS AI

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Perl Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Job Description

Job summary

Additional locations include: Palo Alto, CA; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA

AWS AI - Lex team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive science leader with a strong background in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology.

Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to AWS enterprise customers by pushing the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation (MT), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Machine Learning (ML).

As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in human language technology. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous speech, text, and structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science with specialization in speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, or machine learning.
• Breadth and depth knowledge of ML learning algorithms.
• Breadth and depth knowledge NLP algorithms.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in industry and/or academia.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience to manage an industrial research team for at least 3 years.
• Proven track record in building speech recognition and natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• Solid Machine Learning background and familiar with standard speech and machine learning techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field.