Knowledge Engineer Intern
Internship Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering
Job description
DESCRIPTION
Job description
We are looking for outstanding Knowledge Engineer Interns to join us in Summer 2018 for a fixed term. You will join one of the teams working out of the Amazon Development Centre in Cambridge, England.
Knowledge Engineers focus on natural language understanding, acquiring large volumes of structured knowledge, and building autonomous machine reasoning to allow our customers to get answers to their questions in the most natural way possible. We're part of a huge research and engineering effort on the Amazon Alexa team.
Our Knowledge Engineers work to understand real world concepts and represent them in our system. They also configure the natural language processing and generation systems to help Alexa understand questions and respond with spoken answers.
Development
You will be joining an internationally diverse and experienced team of Knowledge Engineers and Data Analysts, giving you a chance to grow and learn in a supportive environment. You will be responsible for your own learning and development with guidance and coaching from your manager, buddy and colleagues around you. In addition, there are the long-term benefits from developing contacts at one of the world's leading online businesses.
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Concise clear written communication skills (ideally demonstrated in your CV!) and excellent verbal communication ability.
• Academic excellence, for example demonstrated by excellent progress on an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and successful background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further details of this policy/procedure will be sent to you along with your conditional offer.