Amazon · 1 month ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Model Customization, Generative AI Innovation Center
San Francisco, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for their Generative AI Innovation Center, which focuses on empowering customers through advanced AI technologies. The role involves developing custom Large Language Models and optimizing them for high-performance deployment on AWS’s custom AI accelerators.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Design and implement distributed training pipelines for LLMs using tools such as Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) and DeepSpeed, ensuring scalability and efficiency
Adapt LLMs for new languages, domains, and vision applications through continued pre-training, fine-tuning, and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)
Optimize AI models for deployment on AWS Inferentia and Trainium, leveraging the AWS Neuron SDK and developing custom kernels for enhanced performance
Interact with enterprise customers and foundational model providers to understand their business and technical challenges, co-developing tailored generative AI solutions
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Hands-on experience with deep learning and machine learning methods (e.g., for training, fine tuning, and inference)
Experience with design, development, and optimization of generative AI solutions, algorithms, or technologies
Preferred
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
Hands-on experience with at least one ML library or framework
Benefits
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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2026-01-11
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