GenAI Specialist SA

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Do you have a builder’s mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”? Are you passionate about Generative AI (GenAI), understand cloud architectures & platforms, and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with Customers to experiment with innovative approaches and the validate the technical feasibility of solutions?
Generative AI is rapidly growing in importance. We’re seeing more and more amazing GenAI work being done from AI-beings APP and intelligence customer service chatbot to operational data analysis, code generation and multimodal implementations. Given the scale required for developing GenAI workloads, the cloud is an ideal place to build them, and Amazon Web Services is the leader in this market. We’re looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. Someone who is devoted to helping IC customers understand how GenAI can make a big difference to their businesses.

Key job responsibilities
- As a Generative AI Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) , you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing GenAI solutions that leverage Amazon Web Services. As part of the Specialist Solutions Architecture team, you will work closely with other Specialist SAs to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of Amazon Web Services for GenAI platforms.
- You will interact with other SAs in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage ML/AI on Amazon Web Services. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services GenAI solutions into customer architectures.
- You must have deep technical experience working with technologies related to Large Language Model (LLM), from model fine-tuning, prompt engineering to end-to-end GenAI solutions. A strong developing machine learning background is preferred, in addition to experience building application and architecture design. You will be familiar with the ecosystem of software vendors in the GenAI space, and will leverage this knowledge to help Amazon Web Services customers in their selection process.
- Candidates must have great communication skills and be very technical and hands-on, with the ability to impress Amazon Web Services customers at any level, from developers to executives. Previous experience with Amazon Web Services is desired but not required, provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers, partners and Amazon Web Services service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovations.

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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Shenzhen, CHN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of experience in design, implementation and consulting experience of Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Generative AI solutions;
- Familiarity with popular commercial/open-source Generative Model and related techniques e.g., Agent, Langchain, vector database, prompt engineering, multimodal, pre-training, fine-tuning etc;
- 3+ years of experience of technical architecture, design, deployment and operational level knowledge;

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Graduate degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.);
- Practical experience of prompt design in production environment, such as templates, instructions, questions and answers, etc., as well as prompt evaluation methods and tools; solid understanding of common machine/deep learning algorithms and hands-on experience in following areas: prompt engineering, BERT, GPT, T5, transformers;
- Experience using Python and/or Java, Go; experience with relational databases, No-SQL, and large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop and Spark;
- Past and current experience writing and speaking about complex technical concepts to broad audiences in a simplified format; strong written and verbal communication skills;
- Experience with and Amazon Web Services platform (Amazon SageMaker, EMR, Glue, Lambda, EKS, etc.)

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