Amazon
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, AGI
$193K–$262K
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for the listed software development, programming, and design or architecture experience; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develops and evaluates reinforcement-learning environments and techniques to advance large language models and foundational GenAI models.
What you'll do
- Develop RL Gyms and assess their usefulness for advancing frontier models.
- Build techniques that advance the state of the art with LLMs and support foundational model development in an applied research role.
- Use Amazon’s data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate LLM advances.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
GenAI, Large Language Models (LLMs), RL Gyms
AI focus
Applied research and engineering to develop foundational GenAI models, evaluate RL environments, and advance LLMs.
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