Senior Vector Search Engineer – ML/LLM & Scalable Infra

Amazon; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 193,300 - 261,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a senior software engineer for the Search Engine organization in Palo Alto, CA. You will help evolve a distributed search stack, leveraging LLMs and DL models to improve user queries.

The role requires 8+ years in software development, leadership in design, and strong background in distributed systems and ML infrastructure. Equal opportunity employer with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of scalable systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Understand and improve state-of-the-art in Vector Search.
• Optimize inference for semantic matching and ranking models.
• Improve search engine efficiency to reduce infrastructure cost.
• Contribute to open source Lucene and collaborate with leaders.
• Participate in on-call and raise the bar on operational excellence.

Skills

8+ years programming

Mentor / tech lead

Distributed systems

Machine learning infrastructure

CUDA / GPU programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a senior software engineer for the Search Engine organization in Palo Alto, CA. You will help evolve a distributed search stack, leveraging LLMs and DL models to improve user queries.

The role requires 8+ years in software development, leadership in design, and strong background in distributed systems and ML infrastructure. Equal opportunity employer with comprehensive benefits.