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Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com Inc
  • Bellevue, WA
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Software Development Engineer to help advance the quality and capabilities of industry-leading large language models and Generative AI systems.

    In this role, you will build scalable solutions for discovering, processing, curating, transforming, and delivering high-value data used across model evaluation, training, and post-training workflows. You will work with large-scale and heterogeneous datasets, including data produced by partner teams, long-context data, and other data sources that can help improve model development.

    You will collaborate closely with scientists, ML engineers, evaluation teams, and other engineering teams to identify valuable data sources, understand downstream data requirements, and develop mechanisms that make data easier to discover, standardize, validate, transform, and consume at scale.

    Your work will help expand the breadth, quality, and usability of data available for Generative AI development and establish scalable data infrastructure, quality standards, and workflows that enable downstream teams to evaluate and improve models more effectively.

    This is an opportunity to solve challenging problems at the intersection of data infrastructure, evaluation data, and Generative AI, and to directly influence the data foundation supporting Amazon's next generation of AI models and experiences.

    Key job responsibilities

    Quickly learn and apply emerging technologies, methodologies, and best practices in Generative AI, data processing, and large-scale model development.

    Design, build, and maintain scalable platforms and infrastructure for discovering, scanning, processing, curating, and delivering data used to support LLM evaluation, training, and model improvement.

    Develop systems and mechanisms to identify useful evaluation data produced by partner teams, understand its characteristics and usability, and make relevant data easier to discover, standardize, validate, and consume.

    Expand the breadth and quality of data available for model development, including evaluation datasets, long-context data, training data, and other high-value data sources.

    Build scalable capabilities to transform heterogeneous data from different sources and formats into standardized, high-quality datasets that can be reliably consumed by downstream evaluation and training workflows.

    Partner closely with Applied Scientists, ML Engineers, evaluation teams, and other engineering teams to understand data needs, identify gaps in available data, and translate those needs into scalable data solutions.

    Investigate design approaches, prototype new technologies, evaluate technical feasibility, and drive data infrastructure solutions from concept to production.

    Build reliable, high-quality data discovery and processing pipelines that operate at massive scale while improving data quality, coverage, observability, efficiency, and developer productivity.

    Influence technical architecture and establish engineering best practices for data discovery, curation, transformation, and delivery across Generative AI model development workflows.

    A day in the life

    As an SDE with the AGI team, you will build scalable systems that discover, process, curate, transform, and deliver high-value data for model evaluation, training, and post-training workflows.

    You will work with large-scale, heterogeneous data sources and partner closely with scientists, ML engineers, and evaluation teams to understand downstream data needs and make useful data easier to identify, standardize, validate, and consume.

    You will influence technical architecture, establish engineering best practices, and build reliable infrastructure that improves data quality, usability, and developer productivity across Generative AI model development.

    About the team

    Join our AGI team and work at the forefront of Generative AI. We build scalable data and model development infrastructure that helps teams discover, process, curate, transform, and use high-value data to support the development of large language models and other foundation models.

    You will collaborate with talented engineers and scientists working across model development, evaluation, data, and large-scale distributed systems. Together, we solve challenging technical problems at massive scale and build mechanisms that make valuable data easier to identify, standardize, validate, and consume across evaluation, training, and post-training workflows.

    This is an opportunity to influence how next-generation AI systems are developed, expand the breadth and quality of data available to model development teams, and help shape the future of artificial intelligence at Amazon.

    Mission of the team:

    We build scalable data discovery, curation, transformation, and infusion capabilities that accelerate the development of high-quality foundation models. By identifying high-value data across 1P and other relevant sources-including data produced through evaluation workflows-we make that data easier to discover, standardize, validate, and use across evaluation, training, and post-training.

    Our mission is to expand the breadth, quality, and usability of data available for model development, enabling downstream teams to more effectively evaluate models, address data gaps, and improve model performance.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBellevue, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Modelingunmatched
    • Data Processingunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Emerging Technologyunmatched
    • Feasibility Analysisunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Modeling Languagesunmatched
    • Needs Assessmentunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Performance Modelingunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Quality Managementunmatched
    • Quality Metricsunmatched
    • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Technical Analysisunmatched
    • Training Data Setsunmatched
    • Usability Engineeringunmatched
    • Workflow Analysisunmatched

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