Language Engineer II, Operations Team
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Applied Science
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Machine Learning Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, LLMs, NLP, Prompt Engineering and roughly 2+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $82,700–$131,600 per year.
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Education
- Master's degree
- Department
- Applied Science
- Posted
- Jan 20, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThe Alexa Shopping team is seeking a Language Engineer with experience in the field of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Large Language Models, as well as expertise in handling large data sets and strong analytical skills. You will play a critical role in innovative projects by driving design of Alexa Shopping features. The key responsibilities are to generate high-quality data and to run and evaluate experiments, which involves prompt engineering our Large Language Model for API delivery. You will work closely with engineers, scientists, Editors, and program managers to ensure we're providing the best voice shopping experience for millions of our customers. As a Language Engineer, you will start by diving deep into a couple of critical projects across Alexa Shopping experiences. You will collaborate with fellow Language Engineers, Data Scientists, Program Managers, and stakeholders in science, engineering, and product teams to understand the role data plays in developing data sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs to assess data quality and measurement. You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream…