Machine Learning Data Associate, Journey Management
Amazon is hiring a Machine Learning Data Associate, Journey Management in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Machine Learning Data Associate focused on data annotation, labeling, and quality testing to support conversational AI systems.
This role is ideal for detail-oriented individuals who enjoy structured, guideline-driven work and want to play a direct part in advancing conversational AI and customer service technology.
Key job responsibilities
Data Annotation and Labeling
- Perform accurate annotation and labeling tasks that support model training and fine-tuning.
- Complete intent and dialogue labeling for language understanding and intent detection systems.
- Conduct multi-turn free-text annotation to support conversational AI experiences.
- Author simulated conversations used for testing and training.
Quality Assurance and Testing
- Test customer service models based on specific prompts to confirm intent detection and routing work as intended.
- Read and analyze customer contacts to identify defects and improvement opportunities.
- Audit question-and-answer pairs across multiple marketplaces for policy compliance and accuracy.
- Compare call audio to written transcripts to evaluate and improve transcription accuracy.
Analysis and Evaluation
- Complete customer experience analysis by reading contacts and assessing customer sentiment.
- Identify opportunities for improvement through structured contact review.
- Flag compliance issues, including exposure of personally identifiable information and policy violations.
- Review the quality of response templates used by automated customer service agents.
Performance and Development
- Maintain high quality standards across all assigned projects.
- Track and meet throughput targets and key performance indicators.
- Collaborate with project leads and the wider operations team.
- Participate in upskilling initiatives to build expertise across a variety of project types.
A day in the life
You start your day by reviewing your assigned projects and the guidelines for each. You might start with labeling customer conversations to help train a model to better understand what customers are asking for, then move into auditing question-and-answer pairs to make sure the answers customers receive are accurate and compliant with policy. Next, you could test a customer service model feature against a set of prompts, flag a transcription mismatch you noticed, and log your throughput for the day.
Throughout the day you work closely with subject matter expert project leads who answer questions, share feedback, and help you grow. Your work is measured with clear metrics, so you always know how you are performing and where you can improve.
About the team
We own the human-assisted work that produces and validates the data our machine learning models are trained and launched on. Partner teams bring us a model or customer experience, and we deliver the labeled data, translations, and findings they need to make confident launch decisions. Our work spans data annotation, localization and translation, translation quality assurance, end-to-end testing of chat, voice, and self-service experiences, and contact reading, where we analyze real customer interactions to flag defects, assess sentiment, and surface improvement opportunities. We partner closely with program / product managers and science teams
Basic qualifications
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in natural language data labeling, data annotation, linguistic annotation or other forms of data markup
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience using customer insights and data to deeply understand target customers and dive deep
- Experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines, or experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing, or experience in computer architecture
- Familiarity with evaluating conversational or automated customer service experiences.
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How we rate this
Machine Learning Data Associate, Journey Management at Amazon rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
- How do you keep labeling instructions consistent across a large annotation team?
- What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
- Tell me about a project where data annotation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where data labeling was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Fine-tuning, AI Data Labeling, NLP, Data Annotation, and Data Labeling. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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