Senior Software Engineer, AI-Powered Content Discovery

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to own end-to-end components of a conversational discovery platform. You will design, build, and operate production-quality systems that blend LLM-based understanding with traditional personalization signals to deliver scalable, engaging content recommendations.

You will collaborate with world-class engineers and scientists to prototype and productionize LLM-enabled features, optimize

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's Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to own end-to-end components of a conversational discovery platform. You will design, build, and operate production-quality systems that blend LLM-based understanding with traditional personalization signals to deliver scalable, engaging content recommendations.

You will collaborate with world-class engineers and scientists to prototype and productionize LLM-enabled features, optimize