Amazon

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Conversational AI Modeling and Learning

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Base Salary

$200k - $271k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the engineering roadmap and architecture for an agentic AI platform covering evaluation, training, self-learning, and production serving.
  • Architect large-scale evaluation infrastructure with isolated sandboxed execution, recreatable environments, verifiable scoring, and reproducibility at hundreds of concurrent trials.
  • Build and scale reinforcement learning and post-training systems for 256K+ token contexts, multi-turn trajectory training, train/inference consistency, and long-session reward attribution.
  • Design serving and inference architecture for long-session, output-generation-bound agentic traffic, including KV-cache-centric optimization.
  • Establish engineering standards through design reviews, operational excellence, and technical deep dives.
  • Translate ambiguous product and science requirements into platform interfaces and influence build-versus-adopt and ownership decisions.
  • Mentor and grow senior and principal-track engineers across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Preferred: experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment using service-oriented architecture.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
  • The position is located in Bellevue, Washington, USA.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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