Language Data Scientist II

- 2+ years of data scientist experience
- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- PhD in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics with a computational component, or an equivalent field; alternatively, MA/MS with 3+ years of experience
- Excellent knowledge of semantics, pragmatics, conversation analysis, and/or discourse analysis
- Experience designing and executing data collection projects, including guidelines, labelset and annotation workflow development
- Experience developing and evaluating data annotation and data quality metrics
- Experience designing and executing psychology/linguistic/cognitive science surveys or experiments with human participants
- Ability to explain complex concepts and solutions in easy-to-understand terms
- Experience with synthetic dataset creation
- Experience with surveying
- Experience working with a diverse array of languages or language varieties
- Practical knowledge of version control systems such as GitHub
- Ability to unblock yourself in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with driving cross-team consensus

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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The Bedrock AI Data Team in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Language Data Scientist to collaborate in developing solutions for natural language data collections. This position is an opportunity to apply your expertise in a challenging but supportive environment.

The mission of the Bedrock AI Data Team is to engineer the datasets critical to the success of AWS’s Bedrock services. From human evaluations to Responsible AI safeguards to Retrieval-Augmented Generation and beyond, these products make Generative AI enterprise-ready and safe for users, impacting millions of people every day. We are a group of language engineers, linguists, data scientists, data engineers, and program managers, and we partner closely with the science, engineering, and product teams. We are customer obsessed and committed to delivering results with the highest quality and integrity.

As a Language Data Scientist, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects for Bedrock services to drive these projects forward. You will collaborate with fellow language data scientists, program managers, as well as stakeholders in science, engineering, and product teams to understand the role data plays in developing models that meet customer needs. You will analyze, follow, and improve processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs, assessing data quality, and automating where appropriate.

You will then expand your scope by using the principles of data-centric AI to understand the role our data plays with regard to model performance specifically, as well as the larger ML pipeline. You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other language data scientists and scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization.


Key job responsibilities
- Source, validate, and deliver high-quality language artifacts and linguistic data
- Collaborate with stakeholders to design data collection and development efforts
- Oversee the progress and quality of several data collection and annotation projects at a time
- Advocate for strict adherence to data collection guidelines and quality thresholds
- Extend existing data collection, annotation, and quality assurance efforts to support feature and language expansion
- Innovate on data collection methodologies, guidelines, quality metrics to support new requests
- Automate repetitive workflows and improve existing processes

About the team
The Bedrock AI Data Team at AWS is responsible for delivering high-quality annotated data and a variety of language artifacts to ensure the best performance of different AWS LLM services. These Generative AI services enable customers to readily add intelligence to their business operations and AI applications to drive positive outcomes.

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Diverse Experiences
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.