Machine Learning Engineer

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 144.000 - 214.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance (medical, dental, vis

Basic Life & AD&D insurance

Supplemental life plans

EAP

Mental Health Support

Medical Advice Line

Flexible Spending Accounts

Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Ads’ Sponsored Products and Brands team is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to power advertising experiences that connect shoppers with highly relevant sponsored products. This role sits at the intersection of ML, NLP, and production systems, balancing model quality with strict latency requirements.

The role is onsite in New York, NY with a target compensation range of USD 143,700 - 213,800 per year and a minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience.

Formación

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for scalable systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and support scalable ML pipelines and online serving systems that deliver highly relevant sponsored ads under strict latency limits
• Partner with applied and research scientists to optimize ML model performance and infrastructure, moving models from experimentation to production
• Deliver ML features end to end, including system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Identify issues, propose solutions, and use performance metrics to track both system health and model quality
• Operate production services with operational excellence for services used by hundreds of millions of customers (24x7x365)
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and other engineers to build the right customer-facing product
• Mentor peers and share technical knowledge through design and code reviews

Conocimientos

Software development experience

Software design/architecture

SWE experience

C#

C++

Java

Perl

OO Design

Programming languages

Educación

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

As a Machine Learning Engineer on Amazon Ads’ Sponsored Products and Brands team, you will help power advertising experiences that connect shoppers with highly relevant sponsored products. The work sits at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and production systems, with an emphasis on delivering strong model quality while meeting strict latency requirements.

You will collaborate with ML and NLP research scientists to improve performance and take models from experimentation into real-time serving. This is an onsite role in New York, NY, with a target compensation range of USD 143,700 - 213,800 per year and a minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and support scalable machine learning pipelines and online serving systems that deliver highly relevant sponsored ads under strict latency limits
• Partner with applied and research scientists to optimize ML model performance and infrastructure, moving models from experimentation to production
• Deliver ML features end to end, including system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Identify issues, propose solutions, and use performance metrics to track both system health and model quality
• Operate production services with operational excellence for services used by hundreds of millions of customers (24x7x365)
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and other engineers to build the right customer-facing product
• Mentor peers and share technical knowledge through design and code reviews

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling for new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Technologies

• C#
• C++
• Java
• Perl

Team context

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies. The team focuses on transforming the advertising lifecycle across ad creation and optimization, performance analysis, and customer insights, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence.

Amazon Ads emphasizes responsible and intelligent AI that balances advertiser needs, enhances the shopping experience, and strengthens the marketplace.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance
• Option for Supplemental life plans
• EAP
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Preferred qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent