Come join us! LFX team sits at the boundary of state-of-the-art speech models and a maturing AI-first product for an industry leader.

We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong background in Machine/Deep Learning to join us. If you're looking for novel and unique challenges, this position is for you. If you want to create a whole new customer experience with your research expertise, this position is for you. If you enjoy a collaborative and multicultural environment, this position is for you.

As a applied scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in spoken word technology. Your work will directly impact our customers and change the landscape of voice technologies. You will be able to leverage our unique data sources and uniquely cross-functional team structure to experiment and iterate fast.

Responsibilities:
- Engage in state-of-the-art and innovative research in areas such as Speech Generation, Gen AI, model compression, and knowledge distillation
- Train custom Speech Generation and Gen AI models that beat the state-of-the-art and paves path for developing production models
- Collaborate with engineers to design and implement solutions for science problems
- Contribute to the Amazon and broader research communities by producing publications

Basic Qualifications

- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Knowledge of standard speech and machine learning techniques
- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in professional software development
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results

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