Amazon Machine Learning Engineer

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Posted date: Mar 05, 2025

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Location: Boston, MA

Estimated salary: $176,450
Range: $129,300 - $223,600


Description

The Generative AI Innovation Center at AWS empowers customers to harness AI technologies for transformative business opportunities. Our multidisciplinary team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects collaborates with customers across industries to fine-tune and deploy customized generative AI applications at scale. Additionally, we work closely with foundational model providers to optimize AI models for Amazon Silicon, enhancing performance and efficiency.

As an SDE on our team, you will drive the development of custom Large Language Models (LLMs) across languages, domains, and modalities. You will be responsible for fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs for diverse use cases while optimizing models for high-performance deployment on AWS’s custom AI accelerators. This role offers an opportunity to innovate at the forefront of AI, tackling end-to-end LLM training pipelines at massive scale and delivering next-generation AI solutions for top AWS clients.

Key job responsibilities

- Large-Scale Training Pipelines: Design and implement distributed training pipelines for LLMs using tools such as Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) and DeepSpeed, ensuring scalability and efficiency

- LLM Customization & Fine-Tuning: Adapt LLMs for new languages, domains, and vision applications through continued pre-training, fine-tuning, and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).

- Model Optimization on AWS Silicon: Optimize AI models for deployment on AWS Inferentia and Trainium, leveraging the AWS Neuron SDK and developing custom kernels for enhanced performance

- Customer Collaboration: Interact with enterprise customers and foundational model providers to understand their business and technical challenges, co-developing tailored generative AI solutions

About the team

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Qualifications

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- Hands-on experience with deep learning and machine learning methods (e.g., for training, fine tuning, and inference)

- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Hands-on experience with generative AI technology



Extended Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- Hands-on experience with at least one ML library or framework

- 1+ years of experience in developing, deploying or optimizing ML models.

- 2+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, version control, build processes, and testing.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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.



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