What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied Scientist II, AGI Sensory-Edge&Inference position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning and speech processing techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading product used every day by people you know. As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to develop novel machine learning algorithms to advance the state of the art in speech and audio processing.
Key job responsibilities
· Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently
· Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products.
· Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents
· Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test.
· Be proactive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or Master's degree and 2 years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 2 years of building models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C , Python or related language
- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
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