Senior AI Systems Engineer for GenAI Platform

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

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to shape Amazon Q. You will lead architecture, drive end-to-end delivery, and ground AI initiatives in a large-scale, secure, low-latency environment.

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners across AWS to translate advances in foundation models and agentic systems into reliable production features.

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

• Build: Design and deliver major Amazon Q capabilities and the highly available, scalable, secure, and low-latency distributed systems that power them.
• Solve: Tackle ambiguous engineering problems unique to production generative AI, including contextual grounding, agent orchestration, tool execution, retrieval, security boundaries, latency, reliability, and evaluation mechanisms.

Skills

Software development

Programming

Design/Architecture leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to shape Amazon Q. You will lead architecture, drive end-to-end delivery, and ground AI initiatives in a large-scale, secure, low-latency environment.

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners across AWS to translate advances in foundation models and agentic systems into reliable production features.