Amazon is looking for a Language Engineering Manager to join our Artificial General Intelligence - Data Services organization. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and extensive language technology experience, especially in the area of data production for AI and Large Language Models.
As a Language Engineer Manager, you will manage a cross-functional team of Language Engineers who support and lead efforts in complex, novel, and/or large-scale data creation or processing for the use in Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.
You will take part in setting up team goals and will be responsible for your team delivering these goals. You will collaborate with other science and tech teams to introduce new tools or approaches, always on the lookout to improve our processes and velocity.
Key job responsibilities • Lead a cross-functional team of Language Engineers • Provide technical and scientific guidance to your team members in their tasks related to data creation and processing • Lead improvement efforts to optimize existing data creation and sourcing processes or invent new ones • Effectively collaborate with science, engineering, and business partners on large-scale programs • Supporting the career development of your team members
The successful candidate will have an established background in developing diverse, complex, and large-scale datasets for AI, a strong technical ability, demonstrated experience in people management, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
Basic Qualifications
- Master’s or higher degree in a relevant field (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics)
- 5+ years’ experience in computational linguistics and language data processing
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup, especially complex data for AI Models
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience programming in Python or another scripting language
- 2+ years’ experience managing technical linguistic teams in the NLP field
Preferred Qualifications
- Explicit industry experience with language understanding systems or Large Language models or AI
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, especially with cross-disciplinary efforts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Project management experience
- Demonstrated experience with large-scale data analytics
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 Company’s 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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