Sr Machine Learning Engineer, Generative AI Innovation Center

The Generative AI Innovation Center at AWS empowers customers to harness state of the art 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 a software development engineer (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 AWSs 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500 / 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.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Industrial Maintenance,Machining,Mechanical Knowledge,CNC,Precision Measuring Instruments,Schematics,Maintenance,Hydraulics,Plastics Injection Molding,Programmable Logic Controllers,Manufacturing,Troubleshooting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Software Development

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 151300 - 261500