Sr. Software Development Engineer, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
Amazon San Francisco, CA Full-time 3/24/2026 $168.1k - $261.5k per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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•FY 2025Job Description
Join Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, where you'll work with leading AI researchers to optimize large-scale transformer architectures for robotics applications. Your role will involve transforming cutting-edge research into high-performance production systems, focusing on inference efficiency using CUDA and TensorRT.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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 of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Strong expertise in Python, C++ and CUDA programming
- Experience with TensorRT or similar ML optimization frameworks
- Track record of optimizing ML models for production
Responsibilities
- Drive inference optimization strategies for large-scale foundation models using TensorRT, CUDA, and other NVIDIA tools
- Collaborate closely with scientists to influence model architectures for optimal hardware utilization
- Design and implement efficient compilation pipelines for complex transformer architectures
- Develop comprehensive benchmarking frameworks to measure and optimize model performance
- Build robust monitoring solutions to ensure reliable model serving at scale
- Explore and evaluate emerging optimization techniques including ONNX Runtime and other ML compilers
- Maintain high engineering standards through proper testing, documentation, and code review practices
Benefits
- Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.
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