Manager, Applied Science | Alexa AI Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Alexa Machine Learning is looking for an experienced science leader to head a team of talented and passionate applied scientists in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). A successful candidate will have strong foundations in mathematics, statistics and machine learning with exceptional communication and leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivery under tight deadlines. Hands-on experience with large-scale, state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding or other natural language processing systems is a plus.

Our mission is to push the envelope in NLP, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of exceptional scientists to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources.