SDE II: Knowledge Mining & AI Systems for Products

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE-II) to help transform how product knowledge is extracted and represented. You will work on building systems to surface novel attribute knowledge from diverse data sources and integrate with large language models.

You will design scalable pipelines, tune prompts for precision/recall, and collaborate with senior engineers and managers to shape catalog innovation. Seattle-based, with a customer-focused engineering culture.

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.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems to extract structured knowledge from unstructured and semi-structured data sources that extend beyond existing catalog schema
• Build LLM prompts and tune them to meet Precision and Recall requirements for novel attribute discovery
• Build scalable, efficient, and automated knowledge discovery pipelines that surface new product dimensions for both conventional and agentic consumers
• Analyze and process large amounts of data to identify and extract valuable information from diverse sources (e.g., product catalog, customer reviews, search queries, product images, external knowledge bases)
• Define and evolve new schema patterns to represent previously uncaptured product knowledge
• Actively participate in idea and roadmap generation
• Effectively present work to all levels of leadership
• Be an effective collaborator in a cross-functional team of SDEs, Technical Program Managers, and Product Managers

Skills

Distributed systems

High-scale software service design

Agile delivery

Customer-centric development

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE-II) to help transform how product knowledge is extracted and represented. You will work on building systems to surface novel attribute knowledge from diverse data sources and integrate with large language models.

You will design scalable pipelines, tune prompts for precision/recall, and collaborate with senior engineers and managers to shape catalog innovation. Seattle-based, with a customer-focused engineering culture.