Language Data Scientist II
Amazon
- Santa Clara, CA
- $111,600 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Source, validate, and deliver high-quality language artifacts and linguistic data
- Collaborate with stakeholders to design data collection and development efforts
- Oversee the progress and quality of several data collection and annotation projects at a time
- Advocate for strict adherence to data collection guidelines and quality thresholds
- Extend existing data collection, annotation, and quality assurance efforts to support feature and language expansion
- Innovate on data collection methodologies, guidelines, quality metrics to support new requests
- Automate repetitive workflows and improve existing processesAbout the team
The Bedrock AI Data Team at AWS is responsible for delivering high-quality annotated data and a variety of language artifacts to ensure the best performance of different AWS LLM services. These Generative AI services enable customers to readily add intelligence to their business operations and AI applications to drive positive outcomes.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:New York, NY, USA | Santa Clara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USABASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 2+ years of data scientist experience
- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- PhD in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics with a computational component, or an equivalent field; alternatively, MA/MS with 3+ years of experience
- Excellent knowledge of semantics, pragmatics, conversation analysis, and/or discourse analysis
- Experience designing and executing data collection projects, including guidelines, labelset and annotation workflow development
- Experience developing and evaluating data annotation and data quality metrics
- Experience designing and executing psychology/linguistic/cognitive science surveys or experiments with human participantsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Ability to explain complex concepts and solutions in easy-to-understand terms
- Experience with synthetic dataset creation
- Experience with surveying
- Experience working with a diverse array of languages or language varieties
- Practical knowledge of version control systems such as GitHub
- Ability to unblock yourself in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with driving cross-team consensusAmazon 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.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $111,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.