Job Location: Pittsburgh, PA
* BA/BS in Linguistics, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies
* Experience with Machine Translation, Machine Learning, NLP, and/or corpus analysis
* Scripting abilities in a language like Python
* Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Amazon is looking for Natural Language Processing Data Scientists/Computational Linguists with experience in Machine Translation (MT) and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP) to help us expand our MT and NLP technology.
Amazon’s International Search team owns defining and delivering Amazon’s cutting-edge Search and Machine Translation initiatives to customers and cultures across multiple regions. We do this by developing our own customer-facing features, services and platforms based on customer needs, and through partnerships with Amazon technical teams.
You will work with the largest online retail search application in the world, both in terms of users, catalog size, and computing resources, and your work will directly impact millions of our customers. You will collaborate with recognized experts in business, science and engineering.
Our mission is to enable a superior experience for all of Amazon’s customers in their native language by developing and deploying state-of-the art technology and applications in Machine Translation (MT), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). The global scale of Amazon means true big data problems, big data opportunities, and building for global customers. Machine Translation allows Amazon to reach people in their preferred language. We are a team tackling the tough language problems that general-purpose MT cannot solve.
As part of our cross-functional MT research & development team, you will work on developing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting our fleet of Machine Translation engines, particularly focused on Search. You will experiment with training data manipulation, multi-arc systems, error analysis, evaluation techniques, and modeling innovations in the MT space. Your linguistic expertise will help guide the team’s work to smart approaches to a wide variety of languages. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use of our MT and NLP technology. You will gain hands-on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous language data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in MT and NLP.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive linguistic and NLP exploration and innovation for MT improvements
- Train and evaluate neural MT models
- Analyze the accuracy and performance of MT models and drive testing techniques
- Assist in deploying, maintaining, and supporting Amazon’s fleet of dedicated MT systems in production
- Design data-processing workflows to collect, analyze and prepare large natural language data sets
- Conduct large-scale A/B testing of MT models for retail customers worldwide
* Good written and spoken communication skills
* Experience using tools and systems for standard MT and NLP tasks, such as language modeling, named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, etc.
* Formal or informal knowledge of linguistics and/or foreign languages
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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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