Software Engineer-Amazon
Core
Designing and developing core speech recognition technology for Amazon Echo devices and mobile shopping apps.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning software engineer (speech recognition)
Builds
Machine learning models for wake-word detection and speech recognition on Echo devices
Domain
Consumer electronics / Speech technology / Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software development, Machine learning platform development, Python, Java, C++, C#
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain key system features, Investigate design approaches and prototype new technology, Establish architectural principles and select design patterns, Mentor team members on design patterns application
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## About the role
The Amazon Speech team designs and develops the core speech recognition technology used by numerous Amazon products including Amazon Echo, Amazon's mobile shopping app and various other products and services.
You'll be joining a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers and machine learning scientists, that develop and deploy machine learning models to millions of echo devices worldwide. These models are used to wake up echo devices and are critical to magical experience our customers have come to expect.
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.
Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building intelligent embedded system solutions. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering & maintaining high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
## Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features
- Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
- Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
- Will establish architectural principles, select design patterns, and mentor team members on their appropriate application
## About the team
We are Alexa Speech Engines team, part of Alexa Speech group, that operate at the boundary of speech science and engineering.
*Team Locations:*
- Seattle, WA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Boston, MA
- Cambridge, MA
- Arlington, VA
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Santa Clara, CA
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Manhattan Beach, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Francisco, CA (Bay area)
- Toronto, Canada
- Vancouver, Canada
## Basic qualifications
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years experience developing machine learning platforms for scientific experimentation
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
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