Machine Learning Engineer

About the role

Build the machine learning pipelines and online serving systems that match shoppers with advertised products across one of the world's largest product catalogs, with a high relevance bar and strict latency limits. Your work will directly shape the ads hundreds of millions of customers see in Amazon search results and on detail pages around the world.

You'll work closely with machine learning and NLP research scientists to optimize model performance and ML infrastructure, from training pipelines to real-time serving. You'll deliver solutions end to end, then run them to the operational standards needed for services that are always on and used around the globe.

Key job responsibilities

• 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, and take models from experimentation into production
• Deliver ML features end to end: system design, implementation, testing, deployment and operations
• Identify problems, propose solutions and use performance metrics to track system health and model quality
• Run production services to a high bar for operational excellence (24x7x365) for products used by hundreds of millions of customers
• Work with Product, UX, QA and other engineers to build the right product for customers
• Mentor peers and share technical knowledge through design and code reviews

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

• USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually