AI Editor, Amazon Rufus Editorial

Amazon is seeking an AI Editor with exceptional language skills who will bring innovation and creativity to our efforts to deliver a seamless and delightful AI-assisted shopping experience to customers worldwide. This is an opportunity to join the high-performing team behind Amazon’s generative AI-powered shopping assistant. Rufus makes it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their unique needs by helping with product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering specific product questions, and more. This role is inherently high-visibility and highly cross-functional, requiring collaboration and influence across Amazon, including Editorial, Product, Science, Engineering, and Partner teams.

Key job responsibilities
* Translate complex content policies into prompts that LLMs can easily understand, ensuring alignment with business priorities
* Develop and utilize novel prompting approaches for feature development and defect reduction
* Create high-quality alignment data to train LLMs in shopping-specific use cases
* Identify potential biases or limitations in the LLMs responses and employ fine-tuning techniques to improve the model
* Become a subject matter expert across sensitive topics and policies, including areas ranging from environmental and medical claims to sexual content and profanity



A day in the life
You will develop and implement prompting strategies to train and improve Amazon’s Shopping LLM. You will partner closely with Product, Science, and Engineering teams, who are invested in creating solutions that make it easier, faster, and more intuitive for our non-coding workforce to iterate and improve Rufus for customers. You will be part of an Editorial team, which includes creative product and program managers, writers, editors, and language engineers. This is a startup culture: We move fast, have ambitious goals, adapt quickly, and learn along the way.

Basic Qualifications

* Bachelor’s Degree in English, Linguistics, Journalism, or comparable fields
* 5+ years of writing and/or editing experience
* Hands-on experience with generative AI, LLMs, and/or prompt engineering techniques

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience working cross-functionally to drive product improvements
* Working knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style
* Experience writing and editing for a consumer audience


Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $47,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $102,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.