Amazon · 1 week ago
2026 Applied Science Internship - Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting
Seattle, WA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$65.38/hr - $107.40/hr
Start in 2026Amazon is seeking exceptional graduate students to join their cutting-edge research team focused on natural language processing and speech technologies. Interns will explore innovative approaches to NLP, NLU, and speech recognition, working alongside global experts to tackle complex research problems on production-scale data.
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Responsibilities
Develop novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech, question answering, and conversational modeling
Tackle groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, leveraging techniques such as LSTM, transformer-based models, signal processing, information extraction, audio processing, speaker detection, large language models, and multilingual modeling
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems, leveraging your expertise in NLP/NLU, LLMs, reinforcement learning, human feedback/HITL, deep learning, speech recognition, conversational AI, natural language modeling, and multimodal learning
Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, embracing ambiguity and demonstrating strong attention to detail
Qualification
Required
Are enrolled in a PhD
Can relocate to where the internship is based
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with one or more of the following: Natural Language Processing/Understanding, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, Human Feedback/HITL, Deep Learning, Speech Recognition, Conversational AI, Natural Language Modeling, Multimodal Learning
Must be available for full-time (40 hours per week) internship for the whole duration of the internship
Preferred
Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Other forms of compensation
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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