Applied Scientist II, Alexa International Team

Amazon
USA, WA, Bellevue2026-05-13ONSITE

About the job

Alexa International is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. You will contribute to developing novel solutions and deliver high-quality results that impact Alexa's international products and services.

Responsibilities

Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large-scale data.

Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics and methodologies for multimodal personal digital assistants.

Fine-tune/post-train LLMs using techniques like SFT, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF.

Set up experimentation frameworks for agile model analysis and A/B testing.

Collaborate with partner teams on LLM evaluation frameworks and post-training methodologies.

Contribute to end-to-end delivery of solutions from research to production, including reusable science components.

Communicate solutions clearly to partners and stakeholders.

Contribute to the scientific community through publications and community engagement.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience

Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred

Experience in professional software development

PhD