Amazon UK Jobs – Senior ML Engineer

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Sponsored Display is Amazon’s fastest growing ad product, helping businesses of all sizes to discover, reach, and engage relevant audiences along their shopping and entertainment journeys, on or off the Amazon store. We serve billions of personalized ads every day across the world. Our ads appear on the Amazon store, Twitch, IMDB and thousands of external websites and mobile apps.

Machine learning models drive the selection, pricing and bidding for all our ads. In this role you will take technical leadership of our Machine Learning Engineering capability, helping us to train and serve state of the art neural networks on vast amounts of data and serve them at immense throughput with millisecond latency. You will optimize data pipelines, build and maintain model training infrastructure, and operate and optimize real-time model serving to support Sponsored Display worldwide. You will work with scientists to invent, optimize and launch next-generation machine learning models for some of the largest, highest throughput and lowest latency machine learning problems in the world.

You will join a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. The role will challenge you to think differently, hone your skills, and invent at scale. We’re looking for engineers who obsess over technical details but can delight customers by continually learning and building the right products. You will help to invent the future of advertising.

Key job responsibilities

  • Build, maintain and optimize model training and serving infrastructure
  • Serve as technical architect for the integration of cutting edge machine learning models into the ad server
  • Bridge between scientists, engineers, and business leaders, understanding model architectures, training regimes, software architecture and business impact

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • Non-internship professional software development experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with modern machine learning including neural networks
  • Knowledge and experience of advanced neural net training techniques such as distributed training, asynchronous parameter updates, gradient checkpointing and mixed precision
  • Experience with high performance model serving solutions such as Nvidia Triton/TensorFlow Serving
  • Experience with high performance machine learning applications

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Company – Amazon Online UK Limited

Job ID: A2052141



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