Data Scientist, Alexa AI

Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist with machine learning background to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. 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), Machine Learning (ML). BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 1+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience - 2+ years of data/research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst in an internet-based company with complex and big data sources experience - 1+ years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers, or educational content experience - Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) - Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R - Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving - Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive) - Experience working with or evaluating AI systems - Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven busi

Amazon is a global technology company operating in e-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital streaming, advertising and artificial intelligence. Its India operations span development centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Gurugram and Mumbai, covering retail technology, AWS infrastructure, Alexa, advertising, payments and supply-chain systems.