Language Engineer II, Operations Team
Company: Amazon
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
The Alexa Shopping team is seeking a Language Engineer with
experience in the field of Natural Language Processing, Machine
Learning, or Large Language Models, as well as expertise in
handling large data sets and strong analytical skills. You will
play a critical role in innovative projects by driving design of
Alexa Shopping features. The key responsibilities are to generate
high-quality data and to run and evaluate experiments, which
involves prompt engineering our Large Language Model for API
delivery. You will work closely with engineers, scientists,
Editors, and program managers to ensure we're providing the best
voice shopping experience for millions of our customers. As a
Language Engineer, you will start by diving deep into a couple of
critical projects across Alexa Shopping experiences. You will
collaborate with fellow Language Engineers, Data Scientists,
Program Managers, and stakeholders in science, engineering, and
product teams to understand the role data plays in developing data
sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and
automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and
outputs to assess data quality and measurement. 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 Engineers and Scientists to design and implement
principled strategies for data optimization. Key job
responsibilities - Collaborate with scientists and software
engineers to help design APIs and evaluate performance of LLM's -
Produce and manipulate different types of language data, analyze
and provide efficient solutions - Design and lead a data
collection; define scope and target, provide a guideline and
training, guide teams cross sites to meet the quality bar, and run
evaluation of data for hand off - Engineer prompts to guide
generative AI to produce desired outputs in context - Automate
operations and perform data analysis using Python or other
scripting language - Advocate strict adherence to annotation
guidelines - Test and deploy changes to Alexa's language
understanding codebase - Identify and solve production issues that
are impacting the Alexa customer experience - Collaborate with
other linguists, scientists, and designers in creating optimal
solutions to elevate the customer experience - Own the
customer-facing machine learning and deterministic models for a
specific domain of features - Use modeling tools to bootstrap and
test new functionalities - 2 years of computational linguistics,
language data processing, semantics, philosophy of language
experience - Experience in computational linguistics, language data
processing, semantics, and philosophy of language - Master's degree
or above in Linguistics or a related field Amazon is an equal
opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of
protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected
status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the
best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a
workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and
hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding
process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more
information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed,
please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for
this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include
sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
compensation will be determined based on factors including
experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers
comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental,
vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option
for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical
Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and
parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at
https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 -
131,600.00 USD annually
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