Language Engineer for AGI Data & Multimodal Systems

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Language Engineer for the AGI Data Services group in the Seattle area. You will design data collections, generate synthetic and model-based data, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and train AI models.

The role emphasizes handling speech, text, and multimodal data across multiple languages, building analysis tools in Python, and ensuring high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning and executing language data collection projects, including guidelines, labelset and annotation workflow development.
• Master's or higher degree in a relevant field (Computational Linguistics or equivalent with computational analysis).
• 2+ years experience in computational linguistics or language data processing or AI data creation.
• Experience with language data annotation systems and other forms of data markup.
• Proficient with scripting languages, such as Python.
• Experience working with speech, text, and multimodal data in multiple languages.
• Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed oriented.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

• Design complex data collections with human participants 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.
• Design and conduct complex data creation tasks using synthetic and model-based data generation methods, following state-of-the-art approaches
• Analyze and extract insights from large amounts of data
• Build tools or tool prototypes for data analysis or data creation, using Python or another scripting language
• Use modeling tools to bootstrap or test new AI functionalities
• Collaborate with scientists, software engineers, and other data creators to evaluate performance of AI models

Skills

Language data collection

Python

Multimodal data

Project ownership

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Computational Linguistics or related field

PhD in Computational Linguistics (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Git

APIs

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Language Engineer for the AGI Data Services group in the Seattle area. You will design data collections, generate synthetic and model-based data, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and train AI models.

The role emphasizes handling speech, text, and multimodal data across multiple languages, building analysis tools in Python, and ensuring high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment.