DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning? Are you eager to build out the platform as a service and scale the product for all Customer personas? Thrilled to be part of Amazon's AI organization that has been pioneering and shaping the worlds AI technology? If you are someone who enjoys innovating, solving hard problems and working on the cutting edge of technology, come join ADS (Alexa Data Services) team! The ADS organization focuses on providing ground truth data to Alexa engineers and scientists to build and improve ML models and continue evolve Alexa experience for Amazon customers.
We are looking for SDE who is interested in taking ML platform for Alexa to next level. Come challenge yourself in our team-oriented atmosphere, and watch yourself grow with one of the fastest growing areas of Amazon. The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes.
Primary Responsibilities:
Define, design, and implement services that support new Alexa initiatives.
Design, implement, and testing of major features.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and non-relational databases
Previous technical internship(s) preferred
Graduate degree a plus
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.