Member of Technical Staff, Artificial General Intelligence

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA · Applied Science

The AGI team is looking for a Member of Technical Staff to build industry-leading Generative AI (GenAI) technology with LLMs and multimodal systems. This role involves leading foundational model development in an applied research capacity, including model training, dataset design, and pre- and post-training optimization, leveraging Amazon's resources to advance LLMs and impact customer-facing products and services.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead the development of algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs
  2. lead the foundational model development in an applied research role, including model training, dataset design, and pre- and post-training optimization
  3. leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in LLMs

Skills

Required

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 1+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
  • 1+ years of building models for business application experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Nice to have

  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related field
  • Strong experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience with popular deep learning frameworks, including PyTorch

What the JD emphasized

  • strong deep learning background
  • foundational model development
  • model training
  • dataset design
  • pre- and post-training optimization
  • LLMs
  • multimodal systems

Other signals

  • foundational model development
  • LLMs
  • multimodal systems
  • applied research