Software Development Engineer, AGI Data Services

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer for its AGI Data Services team. This role involves building innovative, large-scale software applications to enhance Alexa's capabilities. Candidates should have a strong background in software development, design, and mentoring. Join a team that's at the forefront of AI innovation and contribute to creating the next generation of customer experiences on Alexa.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience.
• Experience with at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality software in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Communicate with users and technical teams to gather requirements.
• Mentor junior software engineers.

Skills

Agile

Mentoring

Software Development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AGI Data Services

Is passion for innovation what drives you? Are you excited by seeing something you worked on being used by millions of people? Alexa Data Services (ADS) is a global Machine Intelligence Data Services organization that provides a broad range of data labeling services for Machine Learning technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, Entity Resolution, Text-to-Speech, and Question Answering within and beyond the Alexa organization.

We provide full-cycle, high-quality data and services in multiple languages, for multiple countries to power the entire lifecycle of Alexa's features, languages, and devices (pre-launch, beta, and post-launch). We are looking for passionate and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, large-scale, high volume, and distributed software applications.

Alexa is always getting smarter. Join the team that trains her.

Key job responsibilities
* Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against tight schedules.

* Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

* Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.

* Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team.

* Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and everything in between.

About the team
Does passion for innovation drive you? Want to be a part of once in a life time opportunity to drive AI innovation and build next generation delightful customer experience on Alexa, building ML applications? We are moving to new era of Human In Loop labeling to support Agents and introducing Gen AI into HiL to move us into new paradigm of HiL.

Meet Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team whose mission is to build the world’s best Artificial General Intelligence that will enable every Amazon business to deliver more value to its customers and benefits humanity. AGI foundational models and services can be used across all businesses at Amazon. Powering this growing in AGI is need for Data, that ML model depend. AGI Data Services is a key part of AGI org providing data creation, curation, and analytics services to help develop, test, and train the AI models. This organization generates ground truth data which is used to train machine learning models. The team works with various data formats such as audio, video, and images, and packages this information to be used by internal stakeholders (e.g., data modeling and product teams).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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