The Alexa Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home. From the simplest voice commands (turn on the lights, turn down the heat) to use cases spanning home security, home entertainment, and the home environment; we are evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that automates daily routines, simplifies interaction with appliances and electronics, and alerts when something unusual is detected. You can be part of a team delivering features that are highly anticipated by media and well received by our customers.
As an Applied Scientist, you will work with other scientists and software developers to design and build the next generation of Smart Home voice control using the latest Large Language Models (LLMs). And, you will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day.
Key job responsibilities Develop new inference and training techniques to improve the performance of LLMs for Smart Home control and AutomationDevelop robust techniques for synthetic data generation for training large models and maintaining model generalizationMentoring junior scientists to improve their skills, knowledge, and their ability to get things done About the team
We are a team of Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Software Developers that work together to make Alexa more insightful and proactive through ambient intelligence, with features like Alexa Hunches that automatically control Smart Home devices.
We are interdisciplinary and we act like it. We ask each other questions and value our different perspectives.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
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Posted: August 20, 2024 (Updated 5 days ago)
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