DESCRIPTION:
Alexa Connections 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 robust deep learning and generative models knowledge. You will contribute to developing novel solutions and deliver high-quality results that impact Connections products and services.

Key job responsibilities

A day in the life
- 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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 QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in professional software development
- PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

📌 Applied Scientist, Alexa Connections (Chennai)
🏢 ADCI MAA 12 SEZ - H82
📍 Chennai