AGI Language Engineer: Data & NLP Innovator

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Data Services organization seeks a Language Engineer to advance dataset construction, linguistic annotation, and large-scale processing. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to align AI systems with human policies and preferences.

Responsibilities include designing data collection tasks, building analysis tools in Python, and evaluating language model performance across languages.

Qualifications

• Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup.
• Experience with one or more scripting language (e.g., Python, KornShell).
• Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Masters’s or higher degree in a relevant field (computational linguistics or equivalent field with computational analysis).
• 2+ years experience in computational linguistics or language data processing.
• Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed oriented.

Responsibilities

• Design data collection/creation tasks in response to science needs: author instructions, define and implement quality targets and mechanisms, provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts (including planning, scheduling, and reporting), and be responsible for the final deliverables.
• Analyze and extract language-related insights from large amounts of data.
• Build tools or tool prototypes for data analysis or data authoring, using Python or another scripting language.
• Use modeling tools to bootstrap or test new functionalities.
• Collaborate with scientists and software engineers to evaluate performance of language models.
• Handle competing requests from a range of data customers.

Skills

Language annotation

Python

KornShell

Multilingual data handling

Effective communication

Education

Master's degree in Computational Linguistics or related field

Tools

Git (Version control)

SQL

R

Matlab

Job description

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Data Services organization seeks a Language Engineer to advance dataset construction, linguistic annotation, and large-scale processing. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to align AI systems with human policies and preferences.

Responsibilities include designing data collection tasks, building analysis tools in Python, and evaluating language model performance across languages.