DESCRIPTION

Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval.

Ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation.


Key job responsibilities
- Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including: Multilingual support, Customizable personalities, Conversational turn-taking.
- Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions.
- Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques.
- Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy.
- Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance.
- Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance.
- Innovate in data representation and model training techniques.
- Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process.

A day in the life
Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon’s products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customer’s experience, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and our insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies.

About the team
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understand and improve customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings - for almost every business at Amazon - for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers).

Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team made up of diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds - including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.