Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Alexa-Conv A Modeling&Learning

Amazon.com Services LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own core systems for an agentic AI platform. You will select and own a foundational area—evaluation infrastructure, RL training systems, self-learning pipelines, or inference serving—and design, implement, and operate it end to end with reliable interfaces for scientists and partner teams.

You will work with applied scientists and engineers to translate research prototypes into scalable infrastructure, ensuring low-latency

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate major components of the agentic AI platform: evaluation harnesses, sandboxed environments, RL and post-training pipelines, self-learning data pipelines, or inference serving for agentic traffic.
• Lead design work in your area: write design documents, drive them through review, and make build-versus-adopt calls within your scope.
• Own reliability and performance: instrument your systems, drive down failure modes that make results untrustworthy, and report platform health in metrics rather than anecdotes.
• Partner with applied scientists to turn research code into production infrastructure and expose it through interfaces other teams can use without your involvement.
• Mentor engineers on your team, raise the engineering bar through code and design reviews, and help set technical direction across your systems.

Skills

Software development

System design

Mentorship

Leadership

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Alexa AI is building the next generation of Alexa+, Amazon's LLM-powered conversational assistant, and its future is agentic: LLM systems that reason and act over dozens of chained inferences, coupled to real environments where their actions persist. Making these agents smarter, faster, and cheaper is as much a systems problem as a modeling problem - agent performance depends on the model, the harness, the evaluation infrastructure, and the serving stack co-designed together.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and own core systems in this agentic platform. You will take one of its foundational areas - agentic evaluation infrastructure, reinforcement learning training systems, self-learning pipelines, or agentic inference serving - and own it end to end: the design, the implementation, the operational bar, and the interfaces that scientists and partner teams build on. You will work directly with applied scientists, work backwards from committed product launches, and turn research prototypes into infrastructure that runs unattended at scale.

The work is concrete. Agents are evaluated in sandboxed, recreatable environments at hundreds of concurrent trials, and every source of infrastructure noise you remove is a model decision the organization can trust. They are trained on long-horizon multi-turn trajectories where the rollout and learner engines have to agree token for token. They are served under latency budgets measured in hundreds of milliseconds. And they improve week over week only if the pipeline that turns production experience into training data actually holds. You will own a piece of that loop, make it reliable, and make it fast.

This is a platform role with room to grow. The systems you own serve every Alexa agent program rather than a single product, and the engineer who makes them dependable becomes the person the organization routes its hardest cross-system problems to.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate major components of the agentic AI platform: evaluation harnesses, sandboxed environments, RL and post-training pipelines, self-learning data pipelines, or inference serving for agentic traffic
• Lead design work in your area: write design documents, drive them through review, and make build-versus-adopt calls within your scope
• Own reliability and performance: instrument your systems, drive down failure modes that make results untrustworthy, and report platform health in metrics rather than anecdotes
• Partner with applied scientists to turn research code into production infrastructure and expose it through interfaces other teams can use without your involvement
• Mentor engineers on your team, raise the engineering bar through code and design reviews, and help set technical direction across your systems

A day in the life

You might spend the morning making the evaluation platform reproducible under high concurrency, tracking down why scores drift when a hundred trials share a host. Midday you pair with a scientist to get a long-context training job to converge identically across the rollout and learner engines. In the afternoon you join a design review deciding how environment snapshots should be versioned and served to partner teams. You work daily with applied scientists and other engineers, and your systems are the reason their results are trustworthy and shippable.

About the team

Our organization owns the applied science and platform engineering for Alexa's agentic experiences. We work at the intersection of large language models, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, agentic architectures, and large-scale distributed systems, serving customers across dozens of languages and device types. Our platform provides the shared evaluation, training, self-learning, and serving foundation for Alexa's flagship agent programs and the broader agent portfolio behind them.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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