Applied Scientist , Customer Engagement Technology

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Description
The Customer Engagement Technology (CET) team leads AI/LLM- (Large Language Model) driven customer experience transformation using task-oriented dialog systems.

We develop multi-modal, multi-turn, goal-oriented dialog systems that can handle customer issues at Amazon scale across multiple languages.

These systems are designed to adapt to changing company policies and invoke correct APIs to automate solutions to customer problems.

Additionally, we enhance associate productivity through response/action recommendation, summarization to capture conversation context succinctly, retrieving precise information from documents to provide useful information to the agent, and machine translation to facilitate smoother conversations when the customer and agent speak different languages.

Key focus areas include:

- Task-Oriented Dialog Systems: Building reliable, scalable, and adaptive LLM-based agents for understanding intents, determining eligibilities, making API calls, confirming outcomes, and exploring alternatives across hundreds of customer service intents, while adapting to changing policies.
- Lifelong Learning: Researching continuous learning approaches for injecting new domain knowledge while retaining the model's foundational abilities and preventing catastrophic forgetting.
- Agentic Systems: Developing a modular agentic framework to handle multi-domain conversations through appropriate system abstractions.
- Complex Multi-turn Instruction Following: Identifying approaches to guarantee compliance with instructions that specify standard operating procedures for handling multi-turn complex scenarios.
- Inference-Time Adaptability: Researching inference-time scaling methods and improving in-context learning abilities of custom models to enable real-time adaptability to new features, actions, or bug fixes without solely relying on retraining.
- Context Adherence: Exploring methods to ground responses in specific customer attributes, account information, and behavioral data to prevent hallucinations and ensure high-fidelity responses.
- Policy Grounding: Investigating techniques to align bot behavior with evolving company policies by grounding on complex, unstructured policy documents, ensuring consistent and compliant actions.
- End-to-End Dialog Policy Optimization: Researching alignment approaches to optimize successful dialog completions.
- Scalable Evaluations: Developing automated approaches to evaluate the quality of experience, and correctness of agentic resolutions.

Key job responsibilities
- Research and development of LLM-based chatbots and conversational AI systems for customer service applications.
- Design and implement state-of-the-art NLP and ML models for tasks such as language understanding, dialogue management, and response generation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to integrate LLM-based solutions into Amazon's customer service platforms.
- Develop and implement strategies for data collection, annotation, and model training to ensure high-quality and robust performance of chatbot systems.
- Conduct experiments and evaluations to measure the performance of developed models and systems to identify areas for improvement.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and conversational AI, and explore opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into Amazon's customer service solutions.
- Collaborate with internal and external research communities, participate in conferences and publications, and contribute to the advancement of the field.

A day in the life
We thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers.

By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to adapt rapidly in a dynamic environment.

Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environment.

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.

If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

Benefits Summary:
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children.

Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
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Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
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Maternity and Parental Leave Options
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Paid Time Off (PTO)
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401(k) Plan

About the team
Join our team of scientists and engineers who develop and deploy LLM-based Conversational AI systems to enhance Amazon's customer service experience and effectiveness.

We work on innovative solutions that help customers solve their issues and get their questions answered efficiently, as well as associate-facing products that support our customer service associate workforce.
Basic Qualifications
- Master's degree
- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD
- 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/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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