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Amazon · 15 hours ago

Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa Smart Home

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$150K/yr - $260K/yr
date6+ years exp

Amazon is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home, evolving it into an intelligent companion that automates daily routines. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will design and build the next generation of Smart Home voice control using Large Language Models.

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Responsibilities

Developing new inference and training techniques to improve the performance of Large Language Models for Smart Home control and Automation
Developing robust techniques for synthetic data generation for training large models and maintaining model generalization
Mentoring junior scientists to improve their skills, knowledge, and their ability to get things done

Qualification

Machine learning modelsLarge Language ModelsNeural deep learningProgramming in JavaProgramming in PythonModeling toolsDistributed systems

Required

3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred

Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc
Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc

Benefits

Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
dateFounded in 1994
location
Seattle, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://amazon.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
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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Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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