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Description

Amazon is looking for a Language Engineering Manager to join our Artificial General Intelligence - Data Services organization. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and extensive language technology experience, especially in the area of data production for Large Language Models.

As a Language Engineer Manager, you will manage a cross-functional team of Language Engineers who support and lead efforts in complex, novel, and/or large-scale data creation or processing for the use in Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.

You will take part in setting up team goals and will be responsible for your team delivering these goals. You will collaborate with other science and tech teams to introduce new tools or approaches, always on the lookout to improve our processes and velocity.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of Language Engineers

• Provide technical and scientific guidance to your team members in their tasks related to data creation and processing

• Lead improvement efforts to optimize existing data creation and sourcing processes or invent new ones

• Effectively collaborate with science, engineering, and business partners on large-scale programs

• Supporting the career development of your team members

The successful candidate will have an established background in developing diverse, complex, and large-scale datasets for AI, a strong technical ability, demonstrated experience in people management, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s or higher degree in a relevant field (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics)

• 5+ years’ experience in computational linguistics and language data processing

• Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup, especially complex data for Large Models

• Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages

• Experience programming in Python, Perl, or another scripting language

• 2+ years’ experience managing technical linguistic teams in the NLP field

Preferred Qualifications

Explicit industry experience with language understanding systems or Large Language models or AI

Demonstrated leadership abilities, especially with cross-disciplinary efforts

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Project management experience

Demonstrated experience with large-scale language data analytics

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.