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# Applied Scientist III, Alexa Edge AI

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $192,200.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Mxnet, Java (Programming Language), Amazon Alexa, Audio Signal Processing, Business Software, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, R (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, NumPy, Software Tools, Tensorflow, SciPy, Speech Recognition, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Spark Mllib, Scikit Learn
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gkjchl

## About the Role

5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

 - PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of applied research experience

 - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

 - Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

 - Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

 - Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

 - Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

## Description

The Alexa Edge AI team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative senior applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning and speech processing techniques. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading product used every day by people you know. As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to develop novel machine learning algorithms to advance the state of the art in speech and audio processing., * Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently

 * Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products.

 * Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents

 * Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test.


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