Applied Scientist II, Alexa International Tech
Amazon· Alexa International Tech
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About the role
Applied Scientist role focusing on large language models, ASR, TTS, and Speech-to-Speech for Alexa International, leveraging multimodal data and multilingual capabilities to advance international products and services.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large-scale data.
- Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics and methodologies for multimodal personal digital assistants.
- Drive research in ASR, TTS, and Speech-to-Speech (S2S) model training and fine-tuning
- Advance multilingual speech recognition and synthesis using LLM-based architectures
- Fine-tune/post-train LLMs using techniques like SFT, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF.
- Collaborate with partner teams on evaluation frameworks and post-training methodologies.
- Communicate solutions clearly to partners and stakeholders.
- Contribute to the scientific community through publications and community engagement.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Deep expertise in ASR/TTS architectures, end-to-end speech models, and LLM integration with speech systems
Skills
Required:Machine learning model developmentASR/TTS architecturesLLM integration with speech systems
Benefits
- Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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