AI-First SDE II: Knowledge Vault & Agent Orchestrator

Amazon Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Houston, TX seeks an experienced SDE II to design, build, and operate major parts of two connected AI-first products.

You will tackle retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, and large-scale evaluation at AWS scale, working with product management, applied science and field teams. You will own crawlers, embeddings, retrieval and APIs to integrate ASA and KV into field workflows, drive reliability, and mentor newer engineers while contributing to recruiting.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Knowledge Vault crawlers and ingestion pipelines that bring specialist content from internal and external sources into the vault reliably and at low cost.
• Lead embedding, retrieval, and ranking improvements end to end, from hypothesis and experiment design through evaluation and production rollout.
• Build and maintain evaluation test sets, prompts, and guardrails. Use evaluation results to decide what ships, and help define the quality bar for agent responses.
• Design APIs and MCP/A2A integrations as clean, reusable interfaces that bring ASA and KV into the tools where field teams already work.
• Drive operational excellence for the services you own: define monitoring and alarming, lead incident response during on-call, fix root causes, and run COE and metrics reviews.

Skills

Software development

Design patterns

Reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Houston, TX seeks an experienced SDE II to design, build, and operate major parts of two connected AI-first products.

You will tackle retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, and large-scale evaluation at AWS scale, working with product management, applied science and field teams. You will own crawlers, embeddings, retrieval and APIs to integrate ASA and KV into field workflows, drive reliability, and mentor newer engineers while contributing to recruiting.