Amazon · 10 hours ago
Sr. Research Engineer, Machine Learning, AGI Foundations
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$193K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a passionate and talented Senior Research Engineer for their Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team. This role involves leading the development of multimodal large-language foundational models and optimizing training workflows to advance state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Responsible for pre and post-training multimodal LLMs
Scale training of models on hyper large GPU and AWS Trainium clusters
Optimize training workflows using distributed training/parallelism techniques
Optimize low-level details of the training stack, including CUDA kernels, communication collectives, network I/O
Utilize, build and extend upon industry leading frameworks (NeMo, Megatron Core, PyTorch, Jax, vLLM, TRT, etc)
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, scientific techniques and evaluate technical feasibility
Deliver results independently in a self organizing Agile environment while constantly embracing and adapting new scientific advances
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
Preferred
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Master's degree in machine learning or equivalent
Hands-on experience and expertise in training Foundational Models/LLMs, and/or low-level optimization of ML training workflows, CUDA kernels, network I/O
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
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CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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