Language Engineer - Amazon Music NLU

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Echo and Alexa are magical: you can ask for any music and it plays instantly. But it's still Day 1 for the voice-enabled music experiences, and we're looking for some Language Engineers to help us make it even better. As a member of the Amazon Music Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team, you will be responsible for leading the effort to invent and improve the ways that customers can ask for what they want to hear in Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music or in their Amazon Music library. You will create new Amazon Music voice features that will allow customers to discover new music and get to the music they would like to hear.

The ideal candidate is interested in being part of a nimble team, passionate about innovating for customers, and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. The person has an attention to detail to deliver solutions that delight customers.

We are looking for a Language Engineer with experience in linguistic annotation, ontologies, taxonomies and/or semantic schemas. In this role, you will support new feature development by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new concepts.
Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
· Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences and features by writing grammars and annotation specifications
· Collaborate with scientists and other Language Engineers in developing coherent and comprehensive meaning representation frameworks
· Lead annotation efforts to test and solidify new representations
· Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including planning, scheduling, and reporting
· Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
· Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
· Write grammars and build FSTs
· Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities
Amazon Music

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
· 1+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, philosophy of language
· Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
· Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas
· Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language