Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Job summary
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring technical Machine Learning Engineers to collaborate with our Data Scientists to deliver ground-breaking solutions for customers. We are looking for builders to support our efforts in the Enterprise, IoT, and start-up communities. We want to take your Data Engineering / Big Data / AppDev experience to a new level by exposing you to modern Machine Learning best practices and delivering AWS solutions in this high-demand field.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in one or many of the following fields: Big Data Analytics, Data Management, Enterprise Application Development w/ serverless technologies, and IoT or Edge-Computing solutions. A familiarity with cloud solutions (not necessarily AWS) and DevOps is a must. This candidate will need a strong interest in machine learning, and will work with a team of data scientists to build end to end solutions. And, of course, the candidate MUST be willing to learn new technologies.

A commitment to team work, hustle, and communication skills are important in this role. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance ML / AI solutions requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or Masters degrees in computer science, engineering, or related technical, math, or scientific field
• 6+ years Application Development experience required with cloud technologies
• 6+ years of Architecture experience: data pipelines, distributed computing engines
• 6+ years of Software Development Experience: scripting languages (Python, R), database languages (SQL, PL/SQL, PG-PL/SQL), version control (GitHub, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit, data structures, algorithms)
• 6+ years of Machine Learning Experience: ML frameworks, ML algorithms (understanding of classification, regression, clustering, embedding, NLP, and computer vision)

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of Machine Learning Experience: ML algorithms, experience with training models, hyperparameter tuning, distributed model training, hosting and deployment of models, ML pipelines (able to whiteboard common components if ML pipelines)
• 6+ years of Data Visualization experience: Python/R frameworks such as matplotlib, seaborn, ploty, ggplot2; JavaScript frameworks such as D3
• 3+ years of Data Science experience: Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, SciKit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet
• 6+ years of Machine Learning experience: supervised learning (regression), supervised learning (classification)

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