Amazon 2023 Fall Applied Science Paid Internship for Master and PhD Student in USA
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
- Internship
Opportunity description
Amazon is accepting applications for 2023 Fall Applied Science paid Internship - Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies - United States (WA, Seattle). This is a full time internship and requires an individual to work 40 hours a week for the duration of the internship. Amazon requires an intern to be located where their assigned team is. Amazon is happy to provide relocation and housing assistance if you are located 50 miles or further from the office location.
Duties & responsibilities
Amazon is looking for Master's students who are ready to tackle some of the most interesting research problems on the leading edge of natural language processing. We are hiring in all areas of spoken language understanding: NLP, NLU, ASR, text-to-speech (TTS), and more!
A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied Science Intern, you will develop and implement novel scalable algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas at the intersection of ML, NLP, search, and deep learning. You will work side-by-side with global experts in speech and language to solve challenging groundbreaking research problems on production scale data. The ideal candidate must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems.
Eligibility criteria
- Enrolled in a Master's degree or equivalent in speech or language technologies, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, or related topics.
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results.
- Experience in understanding and ability to implement algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code.
- Experience with Java, C++, or other programming language, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or similar scripting language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Enrolled in a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in speech or language technologies, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, or related topics.
- Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts and algorithms, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members.
- Publication(s) at peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Excellent critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to present your beliefs clearly and compellingly in both verbal and written form.
About Amazon:
A multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington. It is one of the Big Four or "Four Horsemen" of technology along with Google, Apple and Facebook due to its market capitalization, disruptive innovation, brand equity and hyper-competitive application process. (Wikipedia)
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