Principal Applied Scientist, Alexa International Tech

Description

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization.

You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.

You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modelling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.

You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.
• Develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.
• Participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development.
• Technically ambitious with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions.
• You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

About The Team

Want to be part of the team whose mission is to expand Alexa to new countries, languages, devices and cultures The Alexa International team makes it happen. Our customers are very diverse in where they live, the languages they speak to Alexa, the devices they use and the content that matters most. In turn our problems are diverse and need innovative solutions.

Alexa International is at the nexus of all other Alexa teams and features, such as Smart Home, Music, News, ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), NLU (Natural Language Understanding), Fire TV, Skills etc. We collaborate with hardware and software developers within and outside Amazon to build delightful experience for our customers.

We're working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Company - ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID : A2802151

Skills Required

Java, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence