Amazon Q for business is AWSs generative AI assistant for enterprises. A research engineer at Plato needs to have a strong background in AWS production services AI cloud infrastructure along with a proven track record of delivering results. A research engineer will participate in AI research develop toolings and experiment frameworks to improve science teams productivity interface with engineering team to fill in any gaps help to gauge science code quality and attend code reviews manage science on-calls as well as maintain infrastructures.
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Key job responsibilities
* Participate research and development: direct or indirectly contribute to developing latest Retrieval Augmented Generation technologies fine-tuning techniques for embedding models and LLMs
* Tool development: build and improve toolings that applied scientists would need including scalable science experiment frameworks low-latency testing pipelines data collection/annotation/evaluation web applications.
* Expedite science to production: bridge the gap between science and engineering teams help to investigate and mitigate gaps between science and engineering pipeline. Help to merge both pipelines to one or making components within the two interchangeable. Work towards a fast science-to-production paradigm.
* Science code quality control: serve as gate keeper review and hold science code quality to production standard
* Manage science infrastructure: act as admin to manage all science AWS account including patch any security risks build templates AWS Cops conduct cost reduction operations
A day in the life
A Research Engineer supports Applied Scientists in the team by helping to build tools experiment frameworks and infrastructures. A Research Engineer may be called to directly facilitate science benchmarking and deep dive on any deep learning related technical problems. He/she may be called to lead or facilitate a joint project between science and engineering team.
About the team
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- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Masters degree or equivalent
- 3 years of building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation ads ranking personalization or search experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3 years of machine learning statistical modeling data mining and analytics techniques experience
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