Senior AI Studios SDE - Build AI-powered Creative Tools

Amazon Inc.; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video’s AI Studios Engineering team is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build AI-powered content creation tools for animation and live action projects. You will design and maintain platform components, implement features across backend services, ML model integrations, and creator tooling, while collaborating with ML scientists, product managers, and artists.

This on-site role in Culver City, CA offers rapid learning, production-focused impact, and opportunities to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software components for AI-native content creation platform.
• Implement features across the stack—from backend services, media processing pipelines, and APIs to ML model integrations and creator-facing tooling.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while participating in code reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including ML scientists, applied scientists, product managers, and creative professionals to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Contribute to integrations with industry-standard Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, and Storyboard Pro.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in production systems, contributing to operational excellence and system reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving system monitoring, alerting, and documentation.
• Continuously learn new technologies, tools, and methodologies relevant to AI/ML systems, media processing, and distributed computing.

Skills

5+ years software development

5+ years programming

5+ years leadership

Mentor / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Prime Video’s AI Studios Engineering team is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build AI-powered content creation tools for animation and live action projects. You will design and maintain platform components, implement features across backend services, ML model integrations, and creator tooling, while collaborating with ML scientists, product managers, and artists.

This on-site role in Culver City, CA offers rapid learning, production-focused impact, and opportunities to