Senior MLE, CreativeFlux, AI Studios

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios seeks a Machine Learning Engineer for CreativeFlux, an ML platform powering Nara for AI-native content creation. You will build and operate training and inference infra on EKS, deploy multi-GPU workloads, and collaborate with Applied Scientists to scale new architectures.

You will optimize GPU utilization, integrate with DCC tools, and own model endpoints' health, monitoring, and on-call responses while advancing generative ML and distributed training

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design/architecture of systems.
• Experience as mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate ML training and serving infrastructure on the CreativeFlux platform.
• Design and deploy ML workloads on EKS with GPU node groups and autoscaling.
• Integrate generative ML models into production inference pipelines with scientists.
• Build training/fine-tuning pipelines on EKS and SageMaker with data prep and checkpointing.
• Improve GPU utilization and latency via batching, quantization, and Kubernetes scaling.
• Develop automated evaluation pipelines and human-in-the-loop review.
• Integrate with DCC tools like Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, and Storyboard Pro.
• Own operational health of model endpoints, monitoring, alerts, and on-call rotations.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in reviews.
• Stay current with generative ML and distributed training techniques.

Skills

Non-internship software development

Programming experience

Design/architecture leadership

Mentor/tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

Job description

Join the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios as a Machine Learning Engineer on CreativeFlux, the ML platform powering Nara, our AI-native content creation platform for professional animation and live action/VFX.

Key job responsibilities

• Build and operate ML training and serving infrastructure for the CreativeFlux platform. Strong hands-on experience with EKS / Kubernetes is required.
• Design, deploy, and operate ML training and inference workloads on EKS, including GPU node groups, custom schedulers, autoscaling, resource quotas, and gang scheduling for multi-GPU jobs
• Integrate generative ML models (image, video, audio) into production inference pipelines, partnering with Applied Scientists to take new architectures from research to scaled deployment
• Build training and fine-tuning pipelines on EKS and SageMaker, including data preparation, distributed training, evaluation harnesses, and checkpointing strategies
• Improve GPU utilization, throughput, and latency on the inference fleet through batching, quantization, model compilation, serving framework tuning, and Kubernetes-native scaling primitives (HPA, KEDA, custom controllers)
• Build automated evaluation pipelines and quality metrics that catch model regressions before they reach Artists, including human-in-the-loop review where needed
• Contribute to integrations with Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, and Storyboard Pro at the points where models are surfaced to creators
• Own operational health of model endpoints on EKS, including monitoring, alerting, on-call response, capacity planning, and post-incident analysis
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews
• Stay current with generative ML, distributed training, inference optimization, and GPU efficiency techniques, and apply them where they move team metrics

A day in the life

As an MLE on the AI Studios team, you'll spend most of your time deploying and tuning generative ML models, optimizing inference pipelines, and building the EKS infrastructure that lets Applied Scientists move new architectures into production. A typical day might include scaling a video generation endpoint to handle a production deadline, debugging a multi-GPU training job that's checkpointing too slowly, or working with a Scientist to take a new image model from a research notebook to a serving fleet. You'll work with other Nara platform teams who owns other building blocks, making sure ML capabilities land cleanly in the workflows artists actually use. You'll participate in team standups, model review sessions, on-call rotations, and platform-wide design reviews with the other Nara teams. You'll learn from experienced engineers and scientists and gradually take on more complex challenges as you grow.

About The Team

We're AI Studios within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, building Nara, our AI-native content creation platform. Our mission is to make Amazon a leader in AI-enabled content creation, giving creators direct control over model outputs while reducing the cost and timeline of animation and live action productions.

Our engineering team spans distributed systems engineers building scalable infrastructure, ML engineers optimizing 1P model training and inference, and full-stack engineers building creative facing agentic tools.

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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Company

Amazon.com LLC

Job ID: A10513627