Senior MLE - Scale Generative AI for Film & Animation

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. You will own training and serving infrastructure for generative models used by animators and filmmakers.

You’ll build production-grade pipelines on EKS and SageMaker, optimize GPU utilization, and work with artists to deploy new model architectures. The role emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and delivering tools that accelerate creative

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate ML training and inference workloads on EKS, including GPU node groups, schedulers, autoscaling, quotas, and gang scheduling for multi-GPU jobs.
• Integrate generative ML models into production inference pipelines with Applied Scientists to deploy architectures.
• Build training and fine-tuning pipelines on EKS and SageMaker, including data prep, distributed training, evaluation, and checkpointing strategies.
• Improve GPU utilization, throughput, and latency on the inference fleet through batching, quantization, model compilation, serving framework tuning, and Kubernetes scaling primitives.
• Build automated evaluation pipelines and quality metrics that catch model regressions before reaching Artists with human-in-the-loop review as needed.
• Drive integrations with DCC tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, Storyboard Pro at model surfacing points.

Skills

Non-internship software development

5+ years programming

5+ years design/architecture

Mentor/tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. You will own training and serving infrastructure for generative models used by animators and filmmakers.

You’ll build production-grade pipelines on EKS and SageMaker, optimize GPU utilization, and work with artists to deploy new model architectures. The role emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and delivering tools that accelerate creative