Amazon · 5 months ago
Language Engineer II, Operations Team
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$68K/yr - $151K/yr
3+ years expAmazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Language Engineer to join their Alexa Shopping team. The role involves driving the design of Alexa Shopping features, generating high-quality data, and evaluating experiments related to Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Collaborate with scientists and software engineers to help design APIs and evaluate performance of LLM's
Produce and manipulate different types of language data, analyze and provide efficient solutions
Design and lead a data collection; define scope and target, provide a guideline and training, guide teams cross sites to meet the quality bar, and run evaluation of data for hand off
Engineer prompts to guide generative AI to produce desired outputs in context
Automate operations and perform data analysis using Python or other scripting language
Advocate strict adherence to annotation guidelines
Test and deploy changes to Alexa's language understanding codebase
Identify and solve production issues that are impacting the Alexa customer experience
Collaborate with other linguists, scientists, and designers in creating optimal solutions to elevate the customer experience
Own the customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a specific domain of features
Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities
Qualification
Required
3+ years of designing APIs and working on LLM development
Experience in Python or another scripting languages
Experience in Java basics
Experience with database queries
Experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Large Language Models
Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and detail-oriented
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, and dynamic work environment
Preferred
PhD in computational linguistics or equivalent field with computational analysis, or work experience equivalent
Able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Expertise in Spanish or German language
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Other forms of compensation
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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$8.11BKey Investors
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2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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