Alexa+ is the groundbreaking cloud-based intelligent agent that powers Echo and other devices designed around your voice. Our mission is to push the envelope in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Modal Image/Video Understanding/Generation, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Personalization, Agents, Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text -to-Speech, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. We’re looking for a Sr. Principal Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading conversational systems and Generative AI technologies that customers love. You will partner with world-class technical leaders, engineers, scientists and data analysts across the organization, who have expertise in a wide range of disciplines.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Principal Applied Scientist within the Alexa AI team, you will be responsible for driving Alexa-wide system architecture and design, science and algorithmic approaches, experimentation, metrics and evaluations. You will Serve as a technical lead on demanding and cross-team projects and partner with multiple engineering, science, program management teams build and deploy of scalable Multi-modal (speech/audio/text/image/video) understanding & generation and personalization services, models, data pipelines, metrics, tools and platform targeting first- and third-party developers. The effort will push the boundaries of machine intelligence combining cutting-edge AI techniques to make building and management of conversational and multi-modal scenarios substantially simpler. If you're as passionate as we are about making Alexa and Echo increasingly awesome for our customers all around the world, we'd love to chat with you! We're seeking highly talented, driven and motivated technical leaders with big ideas, who are also obsessed with finding new, intuitive, and engaging ways to interact with our customers.
You must have an established background in combining cutting-edge science with practical needs of customer facing solutions and product. You must have strong technical skills, great communication skills, ability to mentor and lead junior scientists, influence engineering teams to incorporate science approaches into design and solutions and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within a team.
