SDE II: AI Infra for Ambient Intelligence

Amazon; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to help build new AI-driven customer experiences. You will design and ship core software for AI inference, agent execution, evaluation pipelines, and production APIs used by product teams.

You will work in an AI-native development environment with automated testing, code reviews, and rapid iteration to move fast while keeping quality gates green.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Experience programming with at least one software language.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years contributing to architecture and design of systems.

Responsibilities

• Invent new paradigms for ambient intelligence across devices.
• Prototype, test, and deploy multimodal features for personalized experiences.
• Ensure cross-surface continuity and context awareness across platforms.
• Design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services and libraries.
• Integrate model providers, tools, and agent capabilities with safe interfaces.
• Develop evaluation and regression tooling for trustworthy AI behavior.
• Apply security-focused, fail-closed design for credentials and data.

Skills

Programming experience

Software development

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Perl

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to help build new AI-driven customer experiences. You will design and ship core software for AI inference, agent execution, evaluation pipelines, and production APIs used by product teams.

You will work in an AI-native development environment with automated testing, code reviews, and rapid iteration to move fast while keeping quality gates green.