Generative AI Systems Engineer for AWS-Scale

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer to build the next generation of Amazon Q. You will own meaningful features from design through production, collaborating with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners across AWS to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.

You will work on generative AI, agentic systems, and large-scale distributed services, delivering production-quality software with reliability and security at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for large-scale systems.
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.
• Experience programming in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and launch customer-facing Amazon Q capabilities and the backend services that power them.
• Solve engineering problems involving generative AI, distributed systems, grounding, retrieval, tool execution, latency, and security.
• Own features and services from requirements and technical design through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to system architecture and designs, evaluate trade-offs, and participate in design reviews.

Skills

Software development experience

System design experience

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Awareness of AI/ML basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer to build the next generation of Amazon Q. You will own meaningful features from design through production, collaborating with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners across AWS to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.

You will work on generative AI, agentic systems, and large-scale distributed services, delivering production-quality software with reliability and security at scale.