IVONA Software is one of Amazon’s top notch development centers. IVONA researches, develops and delivers cutting edge multi-language Text to Speech technology, leading in voice quality, accuracy and ease of use.
As part of IVONA's development team you will work within the Amazon Digital Products department. This department has developed significant digital businesses including Amazon MP3, Amazon Video on Demand, IMDB, Amazon Fire TV, the Kindle Fire and our recently released Amazon Echo.
IVONA is a team of creative people who successfully combine passion and ambition in creating one of the best speech synthesizers in the world, and now are one of the most visible teams within Amazon where you will have the opportunity to build solutions of great impact on customers all over the globe.
At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, starting from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.
As part of our development team you will work alongside other Software Developers who are subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You will be responsible for designing system architectures, selecting best development solutions, optimizing software performance implementing linguistic algorithms and models. You will be involved in projects from concept to deployment, working closely with our core technology team, taking part in the complete project lifecycle.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you!
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of industry experience
- Proficiency in at least one of modern programming languages: C/C++ or Java
- Knowledge of either Perl or Python
- Sharp analytical and problem solving abilities
- Strong fundamentals in computer programming, data structures and complexity analysis
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.
- Experience in working with Linux/Unix systems
- Knowledge of linguistics, phonetics or NLP is a plus
- Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions