Language Data Scientist II AWS Q for Business

Amazon Q Business is an AI assistant powered by generative technology. It provides capabilities such as answering queries summarizing information generating content and executing tasks based on enterprise data.

We are seeking a Language Data Scientist II to join our data team. Our mission is to engineer highquality datasets that are essential to the success of Amazon Q Business. From human evaluations and Responsible AI safeguards to RetrievalAugmented Generation and beyond our work ensures that Generative AI is enterpriseready safe and effective for users.

As part of our diverse teamincluding language engineers linguists data scientists data engineers and program managersyou will collaborate closely with science engineering and product teams. We are driven by customer obsession and a commitment to excellence.

In this role you will leverage datacentric AI principles to assess the impact of data on model performance and the broader machine learning pipeline. You will apply Generative AI techniques to evaluate how well our data represents human language and conduct experiments to measure downstream interactions.

Key job responsibilities
* oversee endtoend evaluation data pipeline and propose evaluation metrics and methods
* incorporate your knowledge of linguistic fundamentals NLU NLP to the data pipeline
* process and analyze diverse media formats including audio recordings video images and text
* perform statistical analysis of the data
* write intuitive data generation & annotation guidelines
* write advanced and nuanced prompts to optimize LLM outputs
* write python scripts for data wrangling
* automate repetitive workflows and improve existing processes
* perform background research and vet available public datasets on topics such as long text retrieval text generation summarization questionanswering and reasoning
* leverage and integrate AWS services to optimize data collection workflows
* collaborate with scientists engineers and product managers in defining data quality metrics and guidelines.
* lead dive deep sessions with data annotators

2 years of data scientist experience
3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc. experience
3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
Excellent knowledge of semantics pragmatics conversation analysis and/or discourse analysis
Experience designing and executing data collection projects including guidelines label set and annotation workflow development
Experience developing and evaluating data annotation and data quality metrics
Experience designing and executing psychology/linguistic/cognitive science surveys or experiments with human participants

Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.