Senior AI Studios SDE — Creative Tools & ML

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the AI Studios Engineering org to build AI-native content creation tools used in Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios productions.

You will design and ship production-quality code, collaborate with ML scientists and creative teams, and contribute to Nara and other AI-powered creator tooling in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software components for our AI-native content creation platform, supporting professional animation and live action/VFX workflows.
• Implement features across the stack—from backend services, media processing pipelines, and APIs to ML model integrations and creator-facing tooling with guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while participating in code reviews to both give and receive constructive feedback.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including ML 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 design/architecture

Mentor / tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the AI Studios Engineering org to build AI-native content creation tools used in Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios productions.

You will design and ship production-quality code, collaborate with ML scientists and creative teams, and contribute to Nara and other AI-powered creator tooling in a fast-paced environment.