System Development Engineer, Alexa Language and Data Ops

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team at Amazon is seeking passionate, talented, and inventive engineers to play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of industry-leading multi-modal and multi-lingual large language models (LLM). The AGI team's mission is to leverage hyper-scalable, general-purpose large model training and inference systems to develop and deploy cutting-edge sensory AI foundational models that revolutionize machine perception, interpretation, and interaction with humans and the physical world.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing support for cluster and node management to ensure smooth operation of LLM infrastructure
• Continuously improving and automating cluster/capacity/maintenance upgrades
• Developing automation tools for improving operational excellence
• Working on operations and maintenance-driven coding projects, primarily in Ruby, Rails, Java, Python, or shell scripts, AWS, and web technologies
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and expertise in different AWS services
• Driving company-wide campaigns with Support and Engineering teams
• Participating in design and code reviews and identifying bottlenecks
• Troubleshooting and researching root causes thoroughly to resolve defects

The ideal candidate should have:

• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build processes
• Preferred: Experience with distributed systems at scale

Amazon values a "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History" approach, with a strong focus on sharing learning experiences from the front line with development teams. The role offers various opportunities for growth and specialization, whether you prefer mastering a domain, juggling multiple tasks, implementing process improvements, or focusing on coding.

Join the AGI team at Amazon to be at the forefront of AI innovation and contribute to the development of cutting-edge language models and AI technologies.