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Language Data Scientist II, Amazon Q Business

Job ID: 2918426 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon Q Business is an AI assistant powered by generative technology. It provides capabilities such as answering queries, summarizing information, generating content, and executing tasks based on enterprise data.

We are seeking a Language Data Scientist II to join our data team. Our mission is to engineer high-quality datasets that are essential to the success of Amazon Q Business. From human evaluations and Responsible AI safeguards to Retrieval-Augmented Generation and beyond, our work ensures that Generative AI is enterprise-ready, safe, and effective for users.

As part of our diverse team—including language engineers, linguists, data scientists, data engineers, and program managers—you will collaborate closely with science, engineering, and product teams. We are driven by customer obsession and a commitment to excellence.

In this role, you will leverage data-centric AI principles to assess the impact of data on model performance and the broader machine learning pipeline. You will apply Generative AI techniques to evaluate how well our data represents human language and conduct experiments to measure downstream interactions.

Key job responsibilities

1. Oversee end-to-end evaluation data pipeline and propose evaluation metrics and methods.
2. Incorporate your knowledge of linguistic fundamentals, NLU, NLP to the data pipeline.
3. Process and analyze diverse media formats including audio recordings, video, images, and text.
4. Perform statistical analysis of the data.
5. Write intuitive data generation & annotation guidelines.
6. Write advanced and nuanced prompts to optimize LLM outputs.
7. Write Python scripts for data wrangling.
8. Automate repetitive workflows and improve existing processes.
9. Perform background research and vet available public datasets on topics such as long text retrieval, text generation, summarization, question-answering, and reasoning.
10. Leverage and integrate AWS services to optimize data collection workflows.
11. Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product managers in defining data quality metrics and guidelines.
12. Lead dive deep sessions with data annotators.

BASIC 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.
• Excellent knowledge of semantics, pragmatics, conversation analysis, and/or discourse analysis.
• Experience designing and executing data collection projects, including guidelines, label set 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 participants.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's Degree or higher in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), or other related field.
• Knowledge of languages other than English. Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, machine learning and deep learning techniques in the fields of NLP.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, Sagemaker, ML language services, etc.).

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/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.