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Alexa AI Domains (AIDo) is looking for a Language Engineer to join our Language Understanding Experience team in the area of speech and language data processing. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us measure, analyze and solve complex problems. In this role, you are responsible for the design and delivery of Language Understanding using your linguistic, voice user interface (VUI) design, and data analysis skills to understand what a customer meant. You are a key member in new feature development while proactively improving existing experiences. You work closely with other Language Engineers, Product Managers, Scientists and Engineers to deliver magical experiences that customers love.


Key job responsibilities
Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
- Contribute to the design of new features by creating or extending annotation schemas to cover new areas,
- Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences and features by authoring, reviewing and debugging grammars and finite state transducers,
- Advocate strict adherence to annotation guidelines,
- Test and deploy changes to Alexa's language understanding codebase,
- Identify and solve production issues that are impacting the Alexa customer experience,
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers,
- Collaborate with other linguists, scientists and designers in creating optimal solutions to elevate the customer experience,
- Own the customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a specific domain of features, and
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities

- Bachelor's or higher degree in Linguistics or a relevant field
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics or syntax
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas
- Experience in Perl, Python or another scripting language


- Strong technical and analytical aptitude
- Excellent communication, exceptional level of organization, and attention to detail
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time and to accept reprioritization as necessary
- Ability to explain complex solutions in easy-to-understand terms
- Ability to think creatively and solve problems
- Fluency in a major language other than English, such as German, Spanish, and Japanese
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $67,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $151,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.