Language Engineer, AIDo LINGO

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Alexa AI Domains (AIDo) is looking for a Language Engineer to join our Language Understanding Experience team in the area of speech and language data processing. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us measure, analyze and solve complex problems. In this role, you are responsible for the design and delivery of Language Understanding using your linguistic, voice user interface (VUI) design, and data analysis skills to understand what a customer meant. You are a key member in new feature development while proactively improving existing experiences. You work closely with other Language Engineers, Product Managers, Scientists and Engineers to deliver magical experiences that customers love.


Key job responsibilities
Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
- Contribute to the design of new features by creating or extending annotation schemas to cover new areas,
- Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences and features by authoring, reviewing and debugging grammars and finite state transducers,
- Advocate strict adherence to annotation guidelines,
- Test and deploy changes to Alexa's language understanding codebase,
- Identify and solve production issues that are impacting the Alexa customer experience,
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers,
- Collaborate with other linguists, scientists and designers in creating optimal solutions to elevate the customer experience,
- Own the customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a specific domain of features, and
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities