Senior ML Engineer, Fauna

We are seeking a Senior ML Engineer to build and scale the machine learning systems that power our intelligent this role you will design and maintain the infrastructure for training evaluating and deploying the ML models that enable robot locomotion perception manipulation navigation and human-robot interaction.

Youll work at the intersection of machine learning and systems engineering ensuring our ML training and deployment systems are robust efficient and scalable as we grow from prototype to production.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build scalable ML training infrastructure including distributed training pipelines and GPU cluster management both in the cloud and on-prem

- Develop systems for experiment tracking model versioning and reproducibility

- Build deployment infrastructure for serving ML models on robotic hardware with strict latency requirements

- Optimize model inference for edge devices and embedded systems

- Collaborate with research teams to accelerate the path from experimentation to production

- Contribute to data pipelines and labeling infrastructure as needed in partnership with the data platform team

- 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
- Bachelors degree or above in computer science machine learning engineering or related fields or Masters degree
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals including architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization of model execution or experience in development in the last 3 years
- Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods
- Experience in Kubernetes Docker or containers ecosystem or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities and experience with programming/scripting (Batch VB PowerShell Java C# Chef Perl Ruby and/or PHP)

- Experience building and operating a cloud-based architecture
- Experience with robotics data (sensor streams video point clouds) and real-time inference systems
- Familiarity with model optimization techniques (quantization pruning distillation)
- Experience with reinforcement learning or simulation-based training pipelines

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually