Machine Learning Engineer II, Special Projects

Amazon
USA, WA, Seattle2026-02-11ONSITE

About the job

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the next level. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities

Ability to quickly learn state of the art technologies and algorithms in the field of Generative AI to participate in our journey to build the best LLMs.

Responsible for the development and maintenance of key platforms needed for developing, evaluating and deploying LLM for real-world applications.

Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.

Work closely with Applied scientists to process massive data, scale machine learning models while optimizing.

Experience in distributed model training

Qualifications

Minimum

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

2+ years of non-intternship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred

3+ 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