Software Development Engineer, Alexa Excellence

The Alexa Excellence Team is looking for a talented engineer to help revolutionize our voice-forward experience. Alexa powers the Echo family of devices, Fire TV, tablets, third party Alexa providers, and cars. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains.

What you'll do

• Help revolutionize voice-forward experience for Alexa
• Work on speech and language understanding technologies

What they ask for

• Customer-obsessed mindset
• Interest in Speech and Language Understanding

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Technical

1. How would you design a low-latency speech recognition pipeline for embedded voice devices?
2. Explain how Natural Language Understanding models handle intent classification and entity extraction.
3. What concurrency challenges might arise when handling millions of voice requests simultaneously?

Scenario

1. What would you do if a newly deployed voice model exhibits high latency spikes during peak usage hours?
2. How would you troubleshoot an issue where Alexa misinterprets user commands in a noisy background environment?

HR

1. Why do you want to work on voice technology and the Alexa team at Amazon?
2. How do you handle ambiguous requirements when building a new software feature?

About Amazon

1. How does the Alexa Excellence team contribute to expanding Amazon's ecosystem across third-party devices and cars?

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