Applied Scientist, Console Science

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Santa Clara, CA · Software Development

The Applied Scientist will work on building industry-leading Conversational AI Systems, focusing on Natural Language Understanding, Dialog Systems, Generative AI with LLMs, and Applied Machine Learning. The role involves developing novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance human language technology, impacting millions of customers through products and services. The scientist will gain hands-on experience with Amazon's text, structured data, and large-scale computing resources.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in human language technology.
  2. Work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques.
  3. Gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding.

Skills

Required

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Nice to have

  • Experience using Unix/Linux
  • Experience in professional software development

What the JD emphasized

  • building models for business application experience
  • patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Other signals

  • Conversational AI Systems
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Dialog Systems
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Applied Machine Learning (ML)