Software Dev Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

We are building a new team under Alexa Speech Organization. We own the end to end model building platform and services for Speech recognition, one of the three pillars of Alexa. As we scale Alexa to newer usecases that has never been thought before, we need to continuously evolve our systems to enable us innovate faster on behalf of our scientist Organization. We are embarking on a journey to rapidly grow the capabilities of Speech recognition to make it one of the most competent solution in the industry, including enterprises and developer community. if you are entrepreneurial and interested in disruptive thinking and leadership, here is a unique opportunity to steer the direction for one of the core pillars of Alexa Speech.

The Amazon Alexa Speech team is looking for a Software Engineer-II to build the next generation Speech model building services to power the rapidly growing Alexa customer base. We handle millions of requests from our modeling services and we need to continuously evolve and make our systems much faster (build low latency, high through put systems). We are looking for a candidate with a passion for new products, build and manage large-scale services, enthusiasm for our mission, and a talent for managing building great products that are world class distributed systems and resilient systems. We're working hard, having fun, and making history.

As software dev engineer on the team you will be working with Alexa Speech modeling, cloud and domain teams. You will be working on improving the underlying systems responsible for building the next generation speech models. You will own technical solutions end to end, focus on continuous accuracy improvement with continued impact to Alexa core businesses. You will be involved in design through delivery, working with Sr Engineers/ Principal Engineers from peer teams in Alexa Org.