Applied Scientist, Alexa Edge AI

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering, Data Science
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Jul 1, 2025

DESCRIPTION

The Alexa Edge AI team under Alexa Ambient Computing Tech Organization is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to develop novel machine learning algorithms and advance the state of the art in speech and audio processing.

Key job responsibilities

· Conduct applied research project(s) effectively and know when to ask for help and when to work independently
· Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions for consumer products.
· Actively participate and contribute to research activities including publications and patents
· Work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test.
· Be proactive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

A day in the life
An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will support science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into production.

About the team
The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient machine learning models for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.