Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, PXT EXR-Ops Tech

$168K–$227K

Bellevue, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026

Experience
5+ years in several areas; 4+ years of distributed systems experience, or a qualifying bachelor's degree.
Education
Bachelor's degree in a listed quantitative field is an alternative to 4+ years of distributed systems experience; preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

About the job

Leads the design and delivery of large-scale machine learning systems and platforms, including generative AI services, while setting technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

What you'll do

  • Define ML strategy and architecture and lead implementation of complex ML systems and serving infrastructure.
  • Drive ML best practices, platform decisions, operational excellence, and cross-functional technical initiatives.
  • Mentor ML engineers and influence engineering decisions through reviews and technical writing.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of non-internship software development and 5+ years programming experience.
  • 5+ years leading system design or architecture, plus experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Experience building large-scale ML and AI solutions, or training and deploying ML systems; experience with technical support or large-scale optimization is also requested.
  • 4+ years of distributed systems experience, or a qualifying bachelor's degree; ML/LLM fundamentals or experience delivering complex software systems to customers.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
  • Experience defining ML platform strategy or leading product technology discussions.

Pay

168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Machine Learning, Large Language Model, MLOps, foundation models, RAG, fine-tuning, RLHF

AI focus

Builds production-grade AI services, including generative AI and LLMs; develops large-scale ML systems and evaluates foundation models, RAG, fine-tuning, and RLHF.

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