Senior AI Data Platforms Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Stock options

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive the design and development of data ingestion, behavioural intelligence, dataset generation, and evaluation for large language models and AI agents in Seattle.

You will partner with applied scientists and product teams, own architectural tradeoffs, build scalable production systems, and mentor other engineers while ensuring privacy, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT or similar platforms.
• Experience with CUDA kernels or ML kernels.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of scalable systems for model data and insights.
• Define technical direction for data intelligence to improve models.
• Build self‑service platforms for data ingestion, filtering, sampling, and dataset generation.
• Collaborate with applied scientists to define metrics and evaluate experiments.
• Drive automated workflows for data curation and model improvement.
• Mentor engineers and influence cross‑team decisions.

Skills

5+ yrs dev exp

5+ yrs leadership

Mentorship

vLLM/SGLang/TensorRT

CUDA kernels

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive the design and development of data ingestion, behavioural intelligence, dataset generation, and evaluation for large language models and AI agents in Seattle.

You will partner with applied scientists and product teams, own architectural tradeoffs, build scalable production systems, and mentor other engineers while ensuring privacy, security, and reliability.