Sr. Language Data Scientist, Alexa Customer Journeys in Vancouver, British Columbia

Description

The Alexa Customer Journeys team is looking for talented Language Data Scientist to solve emerging and novel data and linguistic challenges in Alexa. From human evaluations to Responsible AI safeguards to Retrieval-Augmented Generation and beyond, we are building exciting Alexa experiences leveraging Generative AI.

As a Language Data Scientist, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects across Alexa experiences . You will collaborate with fellow language data scientists, program managers, as well as 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 data scientists and scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

• PhD in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics with a computational component, or an equivalent field; alternatively, MA/MS with 3+ years of experience, Bachelors with 5+ yrs of experience

• Excellent knowledge of semantics, pragmatics, conversation analysis, and/or discourse analysis

• Experience designing and executing data collection projects, including guidelines, labelset and annotation workflow development

• Experience developing and evaluating data annotation and data quality metrics

• Experience designing and executing psychology/linguistic/cognitive science surveys or experiments with human participants

Preferred Qualifications

• Voice assistants experience

• Working with LLMs

• Experience with synthetic dataset creation

• Experience with surveying

• Experience working with a diverse array of languages or language varieties

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

The base salary for this position ranges from $83,000/year up to $138,600/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.