Software Engineer II, Personalization, Generative AI, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a passionate Software Engineer II to enhance the shopping experience using generative AI. You will develop recommendations models and work with large-scale computing resources to directly benefit customers. This role requires strong software development skills and offers significant impact on product design and implementation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy text and generation models.
• Work with Applied Scientists on customer behavior research.
• Mentor software development engineers interested in ML and generative AI.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Software Engineer II, Personalization, Generative AI, Amazon

Job ID: 2868103 | Amazon.com Services LLC - A57

How can we improve the shopping experience on Amazon.com by tailoring what we display on our pages based on customer interests and preferences? How do we use generative models to help us innovate in different ways to enhance the shopping experience? How do we generate personalized content that helps customers shop at scale? How deliver a cutting edge shopping experience to customers using emerging technologies?

Our team's stated missions is to "grow each customer’s relationship with Amazon by leveraging our deep understanding of them to provide relevant and timely product, program, and content recommendations." Recommendations at Amazon is a way to help customers discover products. Our team strives to better understand how customers shop on Amazon (and elsewhere) and build recommendations models to streamline customers' shopping experience by showing the right products at the right time. Understanding the complexities of customers' shopping needs and helping them explore the depth and breadth of Amazon's catalog is a challenge we take on every day.

Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will build and deploy text and generation models that help customers shop on Amazon. You will work with Applied Scientists to ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to generate recommendations, and run these models directly on the retail website. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML and generative AI. Your work will directly benefit customers and the retail business and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used everyday by people you know.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.