Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa International

Overview

Description Alexa International Science team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. At this level, you will drive cross-team scientific strategy, influence partner teams, and deliver solutions that have broad impact across Alexa's international products and services.

• As a Senior Applied Scientist with the Alexa International team, develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs, delivering industry-leading scientific research and applied AI for multilingual applications.
• Deliver solutions that impact global customers through products and services supporting Alexa+.
• Leverage Amazon s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in text, speech, and vision domains.
• Collaborate with peers to tackle complex challenges, iterate based on user feedback, and influence multiple teams around a shared scientific vision.

• PhD, or Master s degree
• 4+ years of applied research experience
• Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production
• PhD in CS, CE, ML, or related field with 4+ years of relevant post-PhD research experience; or Master s degree with 7+ years of equivalent experience
• Deep expertise in state-of-the-art LLM architectures, training, evaluation, and post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, RLHF, RLAIF)

• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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USA, WA, Bellevue -  -  USD annually