Ashton Chew

Ashton Chew

Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI Labs

Work

I research RL and infra at Amazon AGI Labs.

Previously, I was a Founding Engineer at Theta, researching RL environments and building RL infra for tool use/computer use agents, and a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Amazon AGI on the inference team.

I also contribute to SGLang and Harbor.

Research

GitHub X LinkedIn
Theta (YC X25) Aug 2025 – May 2026

Founding Engineer

Researching automated RL envs and building RL infra for tool use and computer use agents.

thetasoftware.com
Amazon AGI Labs May 2026 – Present

Member of Technical Staff

Working on RL infrastructure for agents.

labs.amazon.science
Amazon AGI May 2025 – Aug 2025

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Inference team. Efficient tool use, observability, and model eval infrastructure for Nova Sonic.

Won the first Amazon Global AI Expo Hackathon (600+ employees).

amazon.jobs/teams/agi
.406 Ventures Sep 2025 – Present

Fellow

Class XVII Student Fellow.

406ventures.com/student-fellows