SDE II: AI-First Engineer for Knowledge Vault & ASA

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

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking an SDE II to own major features across two connected products delivering specialist expertise to the AWS field. You will design, build, and operate key components of Knowledge Vault and ASA, focusing on retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation at AWS scale.

You will mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product managers and field teams to turn open problems into well-scoped deliverables.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate significant parts of the platform on your own.
• Solve hard problems in retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation at scale.
• Design APIs and MCP/A2A integrations as clean, reusable interfaces.
• Drive operational excellence: monitoring, on-call incident response, root-cause fixes, COE reviews.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking an SDE II to own major features across two connected products delivering specialist expertise to the AWS field. You will design, build, and operate key components of Knowledge Vault and ASA, focusing on retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM evaluation at AWS scale.

You will mentor teammates, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product managers and field teams to turn open problems into well-scoped deliverables.