Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models.
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help develop innovative foundation models and infrastructure that enables delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical science and engineering work, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.
Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with applied scientists to scale pre-training of machine learning models on GPUs
- Optimize training workflows using highly distributed training techniques and frameworks
- Work closely with applied scientists and engineers to support inference use cases
- Work with team members to investigate design approaches, develop new ideas, and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software for production use cases.
A day in the life
As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following:
- Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure
- Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning
- Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference
- Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems
- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders
- Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas
- Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions
About the team
The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance.
Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
