Applied Science Manager, Alexa International
Core
Lead a team building industry-leading Generative AI technology with speech-to-speech models and multilingual systems for Alexa's global products.
Role type
Senior Applied Science Manager (Speech & Generative AI)
Builds
Multilingual speech generation, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech-to-speech models
Domain
Consumer AI / Speech Technology / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning, speech synthesis (TTS/S2S), multilingual phonetics, modern model architectures, evaluation methodology, team leadership, technical strategy, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience with low-resource language settings, scientific rigor, experimental methodology
Technologies
Large-scale computing resources, heterogeneous data sources, Amazon LLMs
Responsibilities
Lead and manage applied scientists focused on multilingual speech generation; Set technical direction and raise the bar on scientific rigor; Partner with cross-org stakeholders to align goals and accelerate delivery; Own end-to-end delivery of speech quality improvements from research through production deployment
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team management
