Senior SDE - AI-Powered Personalization & Discovery

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in New York invites a Senior Software Development Engineer to help build Prime Video's AI-powered conversational discovery experience. You will own end-to-end design, development, and operations for core platform components, collaborating with scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of how customers find content.

You will prototype and productionize LLM-powered features, optimize latency and cost, and contribute code with strong reliability and safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and operation of core components of Prime Video's conversational discovery platform, delivering production-quality systems in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• Design hybrid approaches that combine LLM-based semantic understanding with traditional personalization and ranking signals for content discovery and recommendation
• Partner closely with applied scientists and fellow senior engineers to prototype, evaluate, and productionize LLM-powered features including personalized conversation starters, natural language query understanding, multi-turn dialogue, and contextual recommendations
• Optimize LLM inference for latency, cost, and quality at the scale of one of the world's largest streaming services
• Build evaluation and quality-gating mechanisms that measure relevance, personalization, diversity, and safety of LLM-generated content before and after launch
• Contribute significant code, conduct thorough code reviews, and raise the engineering bar across the team
• Uphold operational excellence for Tier-1 customer-facing AI systems, including on-call participation, root cause analysis, and driving reliability improvements
• Collaborate across team and organizational boundaries to integrate with partner systems spanning inference infrastructure, feature storage, and experimentation platforms

Job description

Amazon in New York invites a Senior Software Development Engineer to help build Prime Video's AI-powered conversational discovery experience. You will own end-to-end design, development, and operations for core platform components, collaborating with scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of how customers find content.

You will prototype and productionize LLM-powered features, optimize latency and cost, and contribute code with strong reliability and safety practices.