diff --git a/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model/model.py b/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model/model.py
rename to sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model.py
diff --git a/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_TODO_bionemo_amplify.py b/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/tokenizer.py
similarity index 62%
rename from sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_TODO_bionemo_amplify.py
rename to sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/tokenizer.py
index b81a5c378e..95cb691c51 100644
--- a/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_TODO_bionemo_amplify.py
+++ b/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/tokenizer.py
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
-from pytest import fixture, mark, raises
+import transformers
+from nemo.lightning.io import IOMixin
 
 
-def test_todo() -> None:
-    raise ValueError(
-        f"Implement tests! Make use of {fixture} for data, {raises} to check for "
-        f"exceptional cases, and {mark} as needed"
-    )
+class BioNeMoAMPLIFYTokenizer(transformers.PreTrainedTokenizerFast, IOMixin):  # noqa D101
+    def __init__(self):
+        """A wrapper to make AutoTokenizer serializable for the ESM2 tokenizer."""
+        other = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("chandar-lab/AMPLIFY_350M", use_fast=True)
+        self.__dict__.update(dict(other.__dict__))
diff --git a/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model/__init__.py b/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_tokenizer.py
similarity index 51%
rename from sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model/__init__.py
rename to sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_tokenizer.py
index 25e6abfbc5..6815aa6a36 100644
--- a/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/src/bionemo/amplify/model/__init__.py
+++ b/sub-packages/bionemo-amplify/tests/bionemo/amplify/test_tokenizer.py
@@ -12,3 +12,24 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+from nemo.lightning import io
+
+from bionemo.amplify.tokenizer import BioNeMoAMPLIFYTokenizer
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def tokenizer():
+    return BioNeMoAMPLIFYTokenizer()
+
+
+def test_tokenizer_serialization(tokenizer, tmp_path):
+    tokenizer.io_dump(tmp_path / "tokenizer", yaml_attrs=[])  # BioNeMoESMTokenizer takes no __init__ arguments
+    deserialized_tokenizer = io.load(tmp_path / "tokenizer", tokenizer.__class__)
+
+    our_tokens = deserialized_tokenizer.encode("K A <mask> I S Q", add_special_tokens=False)
+    esm_tokens = torch.tensor([15, 5, 32, 12, 8, 16])
+    torch.testing.assert_close(torch.tensor(our_tokens), esm_tokens)