Manager, Software Development, Alexa Artificial Intelligence

Amazon; Torino; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading technology firm in Turin seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a team focused on machine learning and natural language processing. The role involves strategic influence, team development, and managing large-scale software projects in an Agile environment. Ideal candidates must have 7 years of experience in engineering, 3 years in people management, and a strong track record in technical communication and project delivery. This full-time position offers a unique opportunity in an innovative company.

Competenze

• 7 years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 3 years of people management experience managing engineers.
• Experience delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• Track record of growing engineering talent.
• Strong communication skills for presenting complex information.
• Experience with natural language processing systems.

Mansioni

• Hire and develop the best engineers for the team.
• Set a vision and create product roadmaps for your team.
• Balance long and short-term goals for successful product delivery.
• Keep technical skills current to contribute to architecture discussions.
• Drive improvements in team processes to ensure efficiency.

Conoscenze

Experience in people management

Agile/Scrum methodologies

Natural language processing

AWS

Project management

Technical communication

Software systems operation

Distributed systems

Descrizione del lavoro

Interested in Amazon Alexa Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence…

The Alexa AI Natural Language Understanding team in Italy is seeking a talented self-directed Software Development Manager (SDM) to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of language solutions and machine learning (ML) with our Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) org. The SDM will help us in pioneering new machine learning tools and processes through an iterative research and development cycle. You will build scalable self-serve applications for use across the Alexa AI organization.

You will have significant influence on our overall strategy as you work with a small team of subject matter experts and engineers to define features system architecture best practices. You will work with Engineers and Scientists on the team to execute our technical vision and create world class products.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire and develop the best. You will help grow and develop a team of engineers growing their careers and empowering them to achieve amazing things.
• Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team identify technical and product requirements and opportunities.
• Use project management and prioritization skills to balance long and short-term goals and deliver on your product roadmap.
• Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.
• Drive continual improvements : Set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A day in the life

A mix of helping the team architect our systems for massive scale drive efficiency in our software development processes career coaching and mentorship collaborating with sister teams and interviewing.

About the team

The team is based in Turin (IT) peer teams are in Bangalore (IN) and Boston (US).

Turin (inner metropolitan area population 1.7M) has world-class automotive automation aerospace and banking companies. Housing cost is low while there are recreational opportunities that vary from the opera to the Italian Riviera at one-hour drive the wine area of Barolo and mountain sport in the Olympic Mountains.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
• 3 years of people management experience managing engineers
• Experience managing a team of Engineers
• Experience building highly-scalable distributed systems
• Experience delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies
• A strong track record of project delivery for large cross-functional projects
• Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Experience operating large software systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Experience working on natural language processing or machine learning based systems
• Experience designing developing and deploying scalable solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Required Experience

Manager

Key Skills

Feed,Jsf,Advocacy,Java,Automobile

Employment Type

Full-Time

Department / Functional Area

Software Development

Experience

years

Vacancy

1