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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:55AM (#15663410)
Alexa Science | Data Scientist | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE, FULL TIME As a Sr. Data Scientist in our Applied Modeling and Data Science team, you will be responsible for data-driven improvements and evaluation for our spoken language understanding models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. The Alexa Science and Machine Learning team made the magic of Alexa possible, but that was just the beginning. Our goal is to make voice interfaces ubiquitous and as natural as speaking to a human. We have a relentless focus on the customer experience and customer feedback. We use many real-world data sources including customer interactions and a variety of techniques like highly scalable deep learning. Learning at this massive scale requires new research and development.

Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language; command line usage · Track record of diving into data to discover hidden patterns and of conducting error/deviation analysis · High-level knowledge of various machine learning techniques and key parameters that affect their performance · Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations · Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc.

Alexa Science is a small team in Cambridge, MA (next to MIT) please reach out if you would like to learn more! Cheers, Emma [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:17PM (#15419005)
Amazon Alexa Data Services | Boston or Seattle | Full time

Alexa is always getting smarter. Join the team that trains her. Love working with data? We have the team for you! The Alexa Data Services (ADS) organization provides data creation, curation, and analytics services to help develop, test, and train the Alexa AI. We work closely with internal customers like Machine Learning Science modeling teams, providing the critical data they need to improve Alexa’s Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding models and domain features.

Interested in improving the AI logic for Alexa? Please send me a note! I'd love to hear from you as we build this new, small team in Boston and Seattle. Cheers, Emma [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017) on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:31AM (#14928906)
I'm here! Recruiting for Amazon Alexa in Cambridge, MA :) [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017) on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:20AM (#14919793)
Hi jo_ I'd love to talk with you about Alexa's NLP and ML research team in Cambridge, MA [email protected] send me a note! We have a robust team of senior and principal engineers and scientists to learn from
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017) on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:56AM (#14919568)
Cambridge, MA | Full Time | Onsite | Amazon Alexa

If you love machine learning, big data and AWS we want to talk with you! We’re building the machine learning data platform behind Amazon’s amazing Alexa and we’re looking for all levels of engineers (junior-senior-principal) to work on our (really) big data management problems, low-latency messaging-based architectures and applications, self-service automation tools and ML tools and frameworks. Are teams are small, self-directed and work with the latest and best tooling.

Come invent the future of machine learning and big data at Amazon and have fun!

If you’d like to learn more feel free to email me (Eric) at [email protected] to learn more.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:56AM (#14097685)
Amazon Alexa Science Cambridge, MA ONSITE full-time

Alexa Science teams in Cambridge, MA are a group of scientists and developers working on what's next for Amazon's speech software. This group is publishing research on conversational AI, speech, and machine learning in Kendall Square. I'd love to chat with scientists and engineers with a background or interest in working in a research environment. Please let me know if you would like more info! Best, Emma [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:55PM (#12481990)
Amazon Alexa | Cambridge, MA - Sunnyvale, CA - Seattle, WA | Software Engineers - Research Scientists

Amazon is looking for passionate, talented, and inventive Engineers and Scientists with a desire to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. We are working on currently unpublished problems and changing the way millions of people interact with devices.

Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon's customers by pushing the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Machine Learning (ML).

I'd love to hear from you! Send me a note - [email protected]

Best, Emma

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:20AM (#12232967)
Please definitely let me know if you speak any other languages as well! Not a requirement, but very helpful for our newest teams :)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:17AM (#12232945)
Amazon Alexa - Speech | Cambridge, MA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA

Amazon's speech software, Alexa, is a small team of scientists and software engineers solving complex problems in information retrieval, machine learning, speech and NLP. We have small teams of researchers, linguists and engineers across three offices in Sunnyvale, Cambridge (Kendall Square), and HQ in Seattle. If you are looking for a place to make a big impact on a new product used by millions of people every day - please send me a note! I'd love to discuss. A background in speech technology is not a requirement but an interest is very helpful! [email protected] Looking forward to hearing from you! Best, Emma

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @10:52AM (#12043434)
Amazon Alexa - Speech | Cambridge, MA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA

Amazon's speech software, Alexa is a small org solving complex problems in information retrieval, machine learning, speech and NLP. We have small teams of software engineers and scientists across three offices in Sunnyvale, Cambridge (Kendall Square), and HQ in Seattle. If you are looking for a place to make a big impact on a new product used by millions of people every day - please send me a note! I'd love to discuss. A background in speech technology is not a requirement but an interest is very helpful! [email protected] Looking forward to hearing from you! Best, Emma

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) on Monday May 09, 2016 @02:19PM (#11661926)
Amazon Alexa - Cambridge, MA | Sunnyvale, CA | Seattle, WA

The Amazon Speech team is a group of scientists, inventors and developers working on audio, speech and natural language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services. The team’s mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) in order to provide the best possible experience for our customers.

We're building a new team that will own search with speech. If you'd like to get in at the very beginning of something that millions of people will use every day, please send me a note! [email protected] I'd love to discuss!

Best, Emma

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:16PM (#11407709)
Amazon Alexa - Software Engineers and Research Scientists

Kendall Square, Cambridge | Seattle HQ | Sunnyvale Innovation Center

Are you interested in smart homes, speech technology, and being in on the ground floor of how millions of people interact with devices every day? We're pioneering the future and we still all fit in one room.

If you are a software engineer who loves to build new consumer facing products, has experience shipping production code, and likes working in small teams - we would love to meet you!

If you are a research scientist or have just graduated with your PhD, are interest in NLP, ML, and linguistics-please reach out!

Amazon Echo and Alexa is a small team composed of inventors, developers, and scientists working on audio, machine learning, speech and natural language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services.

I'd love to hear from you! Please send me a note - [email protected]

Best, Emma

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:26PM (#11212740)
Amazon Echo + Alexa | Cambridge MA, Seattle WA, Sunnyvale

The Amazon Speech team is a group of scientists, inventors and developers working on audio, machine learning, speech and natural language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services. A background in NLP and speech is not necessary, we are most interested to speak with engineers and researchers with an interest in emerging technology. Engineers: · Programming in one or more object-oriented languages like Java/Python/C#/Ruby/Objective C/C++ · Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services

Researchers: As a Speech and Language Scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding.

I would love to hear from you! Best, Emma [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:44PM (#11170484)
I've gotten to talk with some really great candidates and have even hired 2 from this post! I'd like to add that we are also looking for QA and Test engineers to join us in each of these locations. Incredible, fun managers working on a very cool invention!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:37AM (#11081179)
Amazon Echo & Alexa - Cambridge, MA-Seattle, WA-Sunnyvale, CA

The Amazon Speech team is a group of scientists, inventors and developers working on audio, machine learning, speech and natural language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services. The team’s mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) in order to provide the best possible experience for our customers. Products such as Amazon Echo, Amazon Dash, and Fire TV are illustrative of the user-delighting spoken language solutions Amazon is building.

In addition to engineers interested in ML and speech we are also building a brand new team in Kendall Square, Cambridge and looking for our first dev hires. The Information Retrieval team will work to develop the Alexa understanding of the kinds of questions users will ask such as ‘What are the movie times in Kendall Theater tonight?’ ‘How tall is Barack Obama?’ ‘Can you tell me joke?’ -Have you worked with a variety of programming languages Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C, Python, Ruby, C#? --Do you have experience working with REST based interfaces?

Send me a note- [email protected]

Best, Emma