Senior Principal Scientist, Alexa AI
Job title: Senior Principal Scientist, Alexa AI in Bellevue, WA at reputed company
Company: reputed company
Job description: DESCRIPTIONAlexa+ is the groundbreaking cloud-based intelligent agent that powers Echo and other devices designed around your voice. Our mission is to push the envelope in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Modal Image/Video Understanding/reputed company, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Personalization, Agents, Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text -to-Speech, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. We're looking for a Sr. Principal Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading conversational systems and Generative AI technologies that customers love. You will partner with world-class technical leaders, engineers, scientists and data analysts across the organization, who have expertise in a wide range of disciplines.Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Principal Applied Scientist reputed company the Alexa AI team, you will be responsible for driving Alexa-wide system architecture and design, science and algorithmic approaches, experimentation, metrics and evaluations. You will Serve as a technical reputed company on demanding and cross-team projects and partner with multiple engineering, science, program management teams build and deploy of scalable Multi-modal (speech/audio/text/image/video) understanding & reputed company and personalization services, models, data pipelines, metrics, tools and platform targeting first- and third-party developers. The effort will push the boundaries of machine intelligence combining cutting-edge AI techniques to reputed company building and management of conversational and multi-modal scenarios substantially simpler. If you're as passionate as we are about making Alexa and Echo increasingly awesome for our customers reputed company around the world, we'd love to chat with you! We're seeking highly talented, driven and motivated technical leaders with big reputed company, who are also obsessed with finding new, reputed company, and engaging ways to interact with our customers.You must have an established background in combining cutting-edge science with practical needs of customer facing solutions and product. You must have strong technical skills, great communication skills, ability to mentor and reputed company junior scientists, influence engineering teams to incorporate science approaches into design and solutions and a motivation to reputed company results in a fast-paced environment. You are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence reputed company a team.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree and/or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ of experience in state-of-the-art machine learning and statistical modeling techniques.
- Deep knowledge of the LLMs (audio/text/image/vision), ML techniques and algorithms development.
- 10+ years of algorithmic development, model training/testing, and software engineering experience, including, Python, Java and/or C++.
- 10+ years of experience leading large-scale projects.
- Experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Principal-level Scientist or Engineer.
- Experience building customer and developer facing products and services
- Knowledge and experience with web-scale services, distributed systems and online learning systems.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present reputed company technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Experience in building reputed company, real-time software systems involving AI, ML, NLU, and dialog algorithms that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying large-scale LLMs (e.g., GPT, Llama, Claude, etc.) in production environments.
- Experience with large scale personalization and recommendation systems.
- Strong project management experience desired for working on cross-functional projects
- Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements
- reputed company, mentor, and grow a team of applied scientists and engineers focused on Generative AI, LLMs, and reputed company technologies.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define and prioritize AI initiatives reputed company with company goals.
- Guide the design and architecture of scalable AI-powered systems for large online platforms.
- Stay at the forefront of AI research, evaluate emerging technologies, and incorporate cutting-edge advancements to maintain a competitive edge.
- Foster a culture of innovation, scientific rigor, and collaboration across teams.
- Ensure responsible AI practices, including ethical considerations, fairness, and transparency, are embedded in reputed company stages of development.
- Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a reputed company field.
- Strong expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), deep learning frameworks, and NLP techniques.
- Proven track record of delivering AI/ML products at scale in large online systems (e.g., e-commerce, social platforms, cloud services, or similar).
- Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and data pipelines.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills with a passion for developing talent.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal process and maximum productivity
- Most of reputed company: enthusiasm, creativity, and inventiveness! You will be asked to find new ways to solve challenging problems every day