Language Data Scientist II

The Bedrock AI Data Team in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Language Engineer to collaborate in developing solutions for natural language data collections. This position is an opportunity to apply your expertise in a challenging but supportive environment. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

The mission of the Bedrock AI Data Team is to engineer the datasets critical to the success of AWSs Bedrock services. From human evaluations to Responsible AI safeguards to RetrievalAugmented Generation and beyond these products make Generative AI enterpriseready and safe for users impacting millions of people every day. We are a group of language engineers linguists data scientists data engineers and program managers and we partner closely with the science engineering and product teams. We are customer obsessed and committed to delivering results with the highest quality and integrity.

As a Language Engineer you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects for Bedrock services to drive these projects forward. You will collaborate with fellow language engineers program managers as well as stakeholders in science engineering and product teams to understand the role data plays in developing models that meet customer needs. You will analyze follow and improve processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs assessing data quality and automating where appropriate.

You will then expand your scope by using the principles of datacentric AI to understand the role our data plays with regard to model performance specifically as well as the larger ML pipeline. You will apply stateoftheart Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other language engineers and scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization.

Locations include Seattle WA USA Santa Clara CA USA New York City NY USA


Key job responsibilities
Source validate and deliver highquality language artifacts and linguistic data
Collaborate with stakeholders to design data collection and development efforts
Oversee the progress and quality of several data collection and annotation projects at a time
Advocate for strict adherence to data collection guidelines and quality thresholds
Extend existing data collection annotation and quality assurance efforts to support feature and language expansion
Innovate on data collection methodologies guidelines quality metrics to support new requests
Automate repetitive workflows and improve existing processes

A day in the life
The Bedrock AI Data Team at AWS is responsible for delivering highquality annotated data and a variety of language artifacts to ensure the best performance of different AWS LLM services. These Generative AI services enable customers to readily add intelligence to their business operations and AI applications to drive positive outcomes.

About the team
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.


Diverse Experiences
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Hybrid Work
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2 years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction analysis statistical modeling and communication 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
PhD in Computational Linguistics Linguistics with a computational component or an equivalent field; alternatively MA/MS with 3 years of experience
Excellent knowledge of semantics pragmatics conversation analysis and/or discourse analysis
Experience designing and executing data collection projects including guidelines labelset 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

Ability to explain complex concepts and solutions in easytounderstand terms
Experience with synthetic dataset creation
Experience with surveying
Experience working with a diverse array of languages or language varieties
Practical knowledge of version control systems such as GitHub
Ability to unblock yourself in a fastpaced environment
Experience with driving crossteam consensus

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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.