Senior SDE: GenAI & Agentic AI Systems

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

Job summary

Amazon Q seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer in Arlington, VA to shape the next generation of AI-powered services. You will lead cross-team initiatives, architect scalable distributed systems, and translate advances in foundation models into production features.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners to deliver secure, low-latency solutions that scale across AWS. Join us to raise the technical bar and drive innovation at Amazon Q.

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 mechanisms for evaluating AI quality and effectiveness.
• Own: Lead projects end to end—from requirements and architecture through implementation, launch, operations, measurement, and continuous improvement—making thoughtful trade-offs across customer experience, quality scalability, availability, security, performance, and cost.
• Lead: Define technical direction for complex initiatives, influence architecture across Amazon Q and partner teams, and simplify systems as they evolve.
• Mentor: Raise the technical bar of the organization through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on development.
• Innovate: Work with applied scientists, product leaders, and engineering teams to bring advances in foundation models, retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI into production.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming experience

Leadership/architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Q seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer in Arlington, VA to shape the next generation of AI-powered services. You will lead cross-team initiatives, architect scalable distributed systems, and translate advances in foundation models into production features.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and UX partners to deliver secure, low-latency solutions that scale across AWS. Join us to raise the technical bar and drive innovation at Amazon Q.