New York, NY · On-site
$134K - $176K/yr
You'll work daily with Applied Scientists, animators, filmmakers, and storytellers, building the ... Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews Stay current with ...
New York, NY · On-site
$134K - $176K/yr
You'll work daily with Applied Scientists, animators, filmmakers, and storytellers, building the ... Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews Stay current with ...
New York, NY · On-site
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
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New York, NY · On-site
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
New York, NY · On-site
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
New York, NY · On-site
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
New York, NY · Hybrid
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
New York, NY · Hybrid
$60K/yr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
Pine Brook, NJ · On-site
$43K - $59K/yr
... writing of descriptions and creation of thumbnails for posting * Creation of PowerPoint presentations, including templates, graphics, and animations * Creation of podcasts and other multi-media ...
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Pine Brook, NJ · On-site
$43K - $59K/yr
... writing of descriptions and creation of thumbnails for posting * Creation of PowerPoint presentations, including templates, graphics, and animations * Creation of podcasts and other multi-media ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
BFA 3D Animation and Visual Effects REPORTS TO: Chair SCHEDULE: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 9:00 ... Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with a strong collaborative mindset. PREFERRED ...
New York, NY · Remote
The work spans 2D, UI, typography, compositing, and edit-driven animation -- sometimes a polished ... You can manage your own workload, communicate clearly in writing, and stay aligned across time ...
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New York, NY · Remote
The work spans 2D, UI, typography, compositing, and edit-driven animation -- sometimes a polished ... You can manage your own workload, communicate clearly in writing, and stay aligned across time ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$200 - $250/hr
... Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless ... This isn't a role focused on turning out one-off animations or supporting an existing system - you ...
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Manhattan, NY · On-site
$200 - $250/hr
... Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless ... This isn't a role focused on turning out one-off animations or supporting an existing system - you ...
New
New York, NY · Remote
Some weeks you'll be deep in a flagship animation yourself; others you'll be running critique ... Can run a critique on Zoom, give clear written feedback in Figma, and keep a team aligned across ...
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New York, NY · Remote
Some weeks you'll be deep in a flagship animation yourself; others you'll be running critique ... Can run a critique on Zoom, give clear written feedback in Figma, and keep a team aligned across ...
New York, NY · On-site
Some weeks you'll be deep in a flagship animation yourself; others you'll be running critique ... Can run a critique on Zoom, give clear written feedback in Figma, and keep a team aligned across ...
New York, NY · On-site
Some weeks you'll be deep in a flagship animation yourself; others you'll be running critique ... Can run a critique on Zoom, give clear written feedback in Figma, and keep a team aligned across ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$100 - $125/hr
... Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless ... This isn't a role focused on turning out one-off animations or supporting an existing system - you ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$100 - $125/hr
... Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless ... This isn't a role focused on turning out one-off animations or supporting an existing system - you ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$22.50 - $27.50/hr
Own the end-to-end development of Webflow sites and components, from page structure to animations ... Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Experience in financial services or regulated ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$22.50 - $27.50/hr
Own the end-to-end development of Webflow sites and components, from page structure to animations ... Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Experience in financial services or regulated ...
New York, NY · On-site
The work spans 2D, UI, typography, compositing, and edit-driven animation - sometimes a polished ... You can manage your own workload, communicate clearly in writing, and stay aligned across time ...
New York, NY · On-site
The work spans 2D, UI, typography, compositing, and edit-driven animation - sometimes a polished ... You can manage your own workload, communicate clearly in writing, and stay aligned across time ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$26 - $36/hr
Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the U.S; and the Comic Arts Fest, celebrating ... Have strong written and oral communication skills. * Thrive on deadlines. * Are well-organized.
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$26 - $36/hr
Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the U.S; and the Comic Arts Fest, celebrating ... Have strong written and oral communication skills. * Thrive on deadlines. * Are well-organized.
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$26 - $36/hr
Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the U.S; and the Comic Arts Fest, celebrating ... Have strong written and oral communication skills. * Thrive on deadlines. * Are well-organized.
Quick apply
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$26 - $36/hr
Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the U.S; and the Comic Arts Fest, celebrating ... Have strong written and oral communication skills. * Thrive on deadlines. * Are well-organized.
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$80 - $100/hr
... animation team members and our clients. If you're chronically online and have an ever-growing ... Write and refine platform-native ad copy, and serve as a strategic voice in client meetings ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$80 - $100/hr
... animation team members and our clients. If you're chronically online and have an ever-growing ... Write and refine platform-native ad copy, and serve as a strategic voice in client meetings ...
New York, NY · On-site
$150K - $200K/yr
From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you'll join a ...
New York, NY · On-site
$150K - $200K/yr
From animators to writers, product designers to researchers, Design brings purpose, feeling, and delight to every interaction with our brand, inside the app and out. As a designer, you'll join a ...
New York, NY · On-site
$134K - $176K/yr
You'll work daily with Applied Scientists, animators, filmmakers, and storytellers, building the ... Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews Stay current with ...
New York, NY · On-site
$134K - $176K/yr
You'll work daily with Applied Scientists, animators, filmmakers, and storytellers, building the ... Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews Stay current with ...
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
Experience in video and animation using After Effects and Premiere * Knowledge of 3D Animation ... Visual, written, and oral communication skills * Learning agility * Functional/technical expertise
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$60 - $80/hr
Experience in video and animation using After Effects and Premiere * Knowledge of 3D Animation ... Visual, written, and oral communication skills * Learning agility * Functional/technical expertise
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An Animation Writer creates scripts, dialogue, and storylines for animated films, TV shows, or web series. They collaborate with directors, animators, and producers to develop engaging narratives that align with the project's tone and audience. Their job includes writing episode scripts, crafting character arcs, and sometimes contributing to world-building. Strong storytelling skills and an understanding of animation formats are essential for success in this role.
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New York, NY • On-site
$134K - $176K/yr
Full-time
Posted 15 days ago
7.4
Based on 7,157 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
5th of 39 rated national retailers
Join the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios as a Machine Learning Engineer on CreativeFlux, the ML platform powering Nara, our AI-native content creation platform for professional animation and live action/VFX.
You will own the training and serving infrastructure that puts generative models in front of artists working on Prime Video's animated and live action productions. You'll work daily with Applied Scientists, animators, filmmakers, and storytellers, building the systems that turn new model architectures into production-grade tools artists can rely on under tight deadlines.
This role suits engineers who want their work to expand what storytelling can look like, putting new generative capabilities into the hands of the people building Prime Video's animated and live action shows.
Key job responsibilities
Build and operate ML training and serving infrastructure for the CreativeFlux platform. Strong hands-on experience with EKS / Kubernetes is required.
Design, deploy, and operate ML training and inference workloads on EKS, including GPU node groups, custom schedulers, autoscaling, resource quotas, and gang scheduling for multi-GPU jobs
Integrate generative ML models (image, video, audio) into production inference pipelines, partnering with Applied Scientists to take new architectures from research to scaled deployment
Build training and fine-tuning pipelines on EKS and SageMaker, including data preparation, distributed training, evaluation harnesses, and checkpointing strategies
Improve GPU utilization, throughput, and latency on the inference fleet through batching, quantization, model compilation, serving framework tuning, and Kubernetes-native scaling primitives (HPA, KEDA, custom controllers)
Build automated evaluation pipelines and quality metrics that catch model regressions before they reach Artists, including human-in-the-loop review where needed
Contribute to integrations with Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, and Storyboard Pro at the points where models are surfaced to creators
Own operational health of model endpoints on EKS, including monitoring, alerting, on-call response, capacity planning, and post-incident analysis
Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews
Stay current with generative ML, distributed training, inference optimization, and GPU efficiency techniques, and apply them where they move team metrics
A day in the life
As an MLE on the AI Studios team, you'll spend most of your time deploying and tuning generative ML models, optimizing inference pipelines, and building the EKS infrastructure that lets Applied Scientists move new architectures into production
A typical day might include scaling a video generation endpoint to handle a production deadline, debugging a multi-GPU training job that's checkpointing too slowly, or working with a Scientist to take a new image model from a research notebook to a serving fleet. You'll work with other Nara platform teams who owns other building blocks, making sure ML capabilities land cleanly in the workflows artists actually use. You'll participate in team standups, model review sessions, on-call rotations, and platform-wide design reviews with the other Nara teams.
You'll learn from experienced engineers and scientists and gradually take on more complex challenges as you grow.
About the team
We're AI Studios within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, building Nara, our AI-native content creation platform. Our mission is to make Amazon a leader in AI-enabled content creation, giving creators direct control over model outputs while reducing the cost and timeline of animation and live action productions.
Our engineering team spans distributed systems engineers building scalable infrastructure, ML engineers optimizing 1P model training and inference, and full-stack engineers building creative facing agentic tools.
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Amazon.com, Inc., commonly known as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company. It was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and initially started as an online marketplace for books. Since then, Amazon has expanded its operations and become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Amazon's primary business is its online retail platform, where customers can purchase a vast array of products, including electronics, clothing, books, home goods, and much more. The company offers a convenient and user-friendly shopping experience, with features such as fast shipping, customer reviews, and personalized recommendations. In addition to its e-commerce platform, Amazon has diversified its business into various other areas. One of its notable ventures is Amazon Web Services (AWS), a comprehensive cloud computing platform that provides services such as storage, compute power, and database management to individuals and businesses. AWS has become a leader in the cloud computing industry, powering many websites and applications worldwide. Amazon has also developed its own consumer electronics, including the popular Amazon Kindle e-reader, Fire tablets, Fire TV streaming devices, and the Alexa-powered Echo smart speakers. The Alexa voice assistant, integrated into these devices, allows users to interact with their devices using voice commands, perform tasks, and access information. Furthermore, Amazon has expanded into media and entertainment. It operates Prime Video, a streaming service that offers a wide range of movies, TV shows, and original content. Amazon Music provides a platform for streaming and purchasing digital music, while Audible offers audiobooks and other audio content. The company's commitment to customer satisfaction and convenience is demonstrated by its membership program, Amazon Prime. Prime members receive various benefits, including free two-day shipping, access to streaming services, exclusive deals, and more.
It services, book publishers, retail, real estate, computer and electronic product manufacturing and software development
10,000+ Employees
Seattle, WA, US
