Amazon
Machine Learning Engineer, Sequence Models (project Sequoia)
$158K–$214K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate machine-learning infrastructure and MLOps practices that move sequence models from research to production at Amazon scale.
What you'll do
- Build and scale infrastructure for data processing, distributed training, and model serving; optimize GPU use, throughput, latency, and infrastructure costs.
- Own training data pipelines, including ingestion, schema evolution, backfills, and data-quality checks.
- Establish repeatable training, validation, and deployment processes, and maintain operational excellence for production systems.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience with ML and LLM fundamentals and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU, or other AI acceleration hardware.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Experience debugging and profiling large-scale systems and applying software engineering best practices.
Pay
158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, GPUs, Neuron, TPU
AI focus
Build infrastructure and production systems for sequence models, including Generative AI and LLMs; support model training, inference, optimization, and deployment.
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