Sr. Applied Scientist, Alexa International
Core
Developing industry-leading Generative AI technology with speech-to-speech models and multilingual systems for Alexa's global products.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (Speech & Generative AI)
Builds
Multilingual speech generation, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech-to-speech models for Alexa+
Domain
Generative AI, Speech Technology, Multilingual Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Deep learning, speech synthesis (TTS/S2S), multilingual phonetics, modern model architectures, evaluation methodology, algorithm development, low-resource language modeling
Preferred skills
Cross-team scientific strategy, influencing partner teams, customer feedback iteration
Technologies
Heterogeneous data sources, large-scale computing resources
Responsibilities
Develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques for multilingual speech generation, collaborate with software engineers to optimize model performance for production, align research priorities with customer needs, participate in science reviews and paper reading groups
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
