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Applied Scientist, AGI

Amazon, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087


Job ID: 2825146 | Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon is looking for creative Applied Scientists to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of information retrieval (IR) and machine learning (ML) with our Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team. Alexa AI aims to reinvent search and information retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We enable customers to interact with unstructured and semi-structured content via a broad range of customer experiences including question answering, summarization, and search.

If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As an Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will develop and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas at the intersection of IR and ML. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will contribute to a multi-year research roadmap, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers.

Key job responsibilities- Develop state-of-the-art web search technology, including training novel retrieval and ranking models, scaling models and optimizing performance, partnering with engineering to deploy and debug model performance in production, and building and scaling quality training data sets.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 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 computingPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruningAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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