Amazon is looking for a passionate talented and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industryleading Speech and Language technology. Our mission is to push the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Audio Signal Processing in order to provide the bestpossible experience for our customers.
As a Speech and Language Scientist you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazons heterogeneous data sources and largescale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.
We are hiring in the area of speech recognition (ASR).
MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences or Mathematics with specialization in speech recognition natural language processing or machine learning
Familiar with programming languages such as C/C Java Perl or Python.
Experience 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.
Scientific thinking and the ability to invent a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field
Solid software development experience
Good written and spoken communication skills.
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