Principal Engineer , AGI Customization

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Engineer with a strong background, to build customization capabilities such as fine tuning and distillation.

As a Principal Engineer with the AGI team, you will be responsible for leading the development of novel LLM training techniques and optimizations to advance the state of LLMs. You will collaborate closely with Applied Scientists and leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development of multimodal Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions.

Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate is passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance AI products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and Machine Learning. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment.

Responsibilities-

- Will work with other team engineers to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Work closely with Applied scientists to process data, scale machine learning models while optimizing
- Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software.

About the team
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.