Applied Scientist II, Alexa Edge AI

The Alexa Edge AI team is looking for a passionate talented and innovative applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning and speech processing techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of an industry-leading product used every day by people you know. As an Applied Scientist you will leverage Amazons heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to develop novel machine learning algorithms to advance the state of the art in speech and audio processing.

Key job responsibilities
Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently
Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products.
Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents
Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition execution and test.
Be proactive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

- PhD or Masters degree and 2 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- 2 years of building models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience in building speech recognition machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g. commercial speech products or government speech projects)
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at MA Boston - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually