Software Development Engineer - III, AGI-DS

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in artificial intelligence is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the development of foundational models and intelligent systems. This role involves end-to-end ownership of distributed backend systems and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance data quality and efficiency. Ideal candidates will possess strong technical skills, leadership experience, and a passion for mentoring.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years programming experience with at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team to develop solutions.
• Drive architectural changes and designs.
• Set and improve team processes for efficiency.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Mentorship

Architecture

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer - III, AGI-DS

Want to help build the next generation of Foundational Models, search and intelligent assistant products? Join us! We are looking for a talented Sr. Software Development Engineer to help us develop build the software and systems to achieve our vision to "Be best-in-class at acquiring, creating and ground-truthing all kinds of data, with the highest standards of privacy and security, to power the best AI models and applications on Earth.”

What will you do? You will lead a multidisciplinary team to develop solutions across multiple programs working with scientist customers collect, clean, and evaluate data used for AI model training. You will lead the development process and have end-to-end ownership of distributed backend systems as well as front-end tools for human-in-the loop data collection.

Key job responsibilities
* Drive architectural changes and designs for the team to scale the AGI-DS planning, routing and execution systems to cater to multiple channels, customer types and workflow types.
* Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.
* Drive continual improvements: Set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A day in the life
A mix of helping the team design systems for building and managing training data, working with the team to deep dive into data quality issues, working with stakeholders to understand their requirements, improving efficiency in our software development processes, career coaching and mentorship, communicating status updates to leadership about progress and challenges, and collaborating with sister teams.

About the team
AGI Data Services (AGI-DS) is part of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization that builds services for storing, accessing, and manually labeling data for training foundational and specialized AI models with world-class privacy and security for our end customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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