Principal SDE, ML | Reinforcement Learning, AGI Foundations

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Foundations team is looking for a passionate talented and inventive Principal ML Engineer with strong machine learning background to lead the development of industry-leading technology.

As a Principal Software Engineer ML within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to technology decisions.

You will be responsible for leading the development of novel algorithms and techniques to advance the state of Large Language Model (LLM) training. You will leverage Amazons heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development of multimodal Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions. You will collaborate closely with the Applied Scientists on LLM reinforcement learning techniques to build production training workflows.

You set the standard for engineering excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of system design clarity efficiency and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems; youre interested in learning; and you acquire skills and expertise as needed. Your expertise is deep and broad; youre hands on producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
You help managers guide the career growth of other engineers by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing engineers and leads.

You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers experiences.

Key job responsibilities
Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding cross-functional projects.

Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.

Functionally decompose complex problems into simple straight-forward solutions.

Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.

Possess expert knowledge in performance scalability enterprise system architecture and engineering best practices.

Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.

Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.

Contribute intellectual property through patents.

Assist in the career development of others actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.

Exert technical influence over multiple teams increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

- 10 years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
- Experience leading the delivery of large-scale systems focused on large language models including the data preparation modeling and evaluation stages including distillation supervised fine tuning and policy optimization
- Experience with deep learning transformers models and frameworks like PyTorch or Tensor Flow

- Experience mentoring an engineering community on complex technical issues
- Masters degree or higher preferred

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability 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 Companys 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 $179000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309400/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.