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Description

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role:

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior Applied Scientist to join our team. As part of the larger technology team working on new consumer technology, your work will have a large impact to hardware, internal software developers, ecosystem, and ultimately the lives of Amazon customers. In this role, you will:

• Working with audio scientists and SW developers to bring a new and innovative audio products and services to delight customers

• Propose new research projects, get buy-in from stakeholders, plan and budget the project and lead the team for successful execution

• Work closely with an inter-disciplinary product development team including outside partners to bring the prototype algorithm into commercialization

• Lead the team on cutting-edge deep learning technology development

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cambridge, MA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree, or PhD

• 3+ years of industry or academic research experience

• Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl

• Experience in developing deep learning models for speech, music, sound detection applications

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

• Experience with conducting research in a corporate setting

• Well versed in the latest deep learning architecture and training techniques for audio and multimodal foundation model development

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.