Sr. Software Dev. Engineer/MLE, AGI Customization

About the position

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive ML Engineer with a strong machine learning background, to build customization capabilities such as fine tuning and distillation. As a ML engineer with the AGI team, you will be responsible for leading the development of novel LLM training techniques and optimizations to advance the state of LLMs. You will collaborate closely with Applied Scientists and leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development of multimodal Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities

• Will work with other team engineers to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Work closely with Applied scientists to process data, scale machine learning models while optimizing.
• Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.

Requirements

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience writing low level drivers.

Benefits

• Flexibility in working hours.
• Support for work-life balance.
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities.