• Language Engineer II, Operations Team

    Amazon (Seattle, WA)


    Description

    The Alexa Shopping team is seeking a Language Engineer with experience in the field of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Large Language Models, as well as expertise in handling large data sets and strong analytical skills. You will play a critical role in innovative projects by driving design of Alexa Shopping features. The key responsibilities are to generate high-quality data and to run and evaluate experiments, which involves prompt engineering our Large Language Model for API delivery. You will work closely with engineers, scientists, Editors, and program managers to ensure we're providing the best voice shopping experience for millions of our customers.

     

    As a Language Engineer, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects across Alexa Shopping experiences. You will collaborate with fellow Language Engineers, Data Scientists, Program Managers, and stakeholders in science, engineering, and product teams to understand the role data plays in developing data sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs to assess data quality and measurement.

     

    You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other Language Engineers and Scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization.

     

    Key job 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

    Basic Qualifications

    - 2+ years of computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, philosophy of language experience

    Preferred Qualifications

    - Experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, and philosophy of language

     

    - Master's degree or above in Linguistics or a related field

     

    Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

     

    Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

     

    The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

     

    USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 131,600.00 USD annually