Software Development Engineer, AGI Information

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Amazon's AGI team as a Software Development Engineer, contributing to innovative AI projects and developing systems that enhance customer experience. You'll work on generative AI, analyzing web content and optimizing scalable architectures in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable systems for web content processing.
• Optimize data processing architecture for performance and resilience.
• Collaborate with teams to prototype and deploy algorithms.

Skills

Software development

Data processing

Web technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AGI Information

Job ID: 3008940 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Unleash your passion for innovation by joining our AGI team as an experienced Software Engineer. In this role, you'll contribute to generative AI projects that shape the future of Amazon's services. Your expertise will support improvements to products like Amazon Q and Amazon Nova, enhancing customer experiences across Amazon's AI offerings.
As a key member of our team, you'll develop and maintain systems that power near real-time content delivery, information retrieval (IR), and grounding (RAG) services. Your contributions will yield more responsive and helpful experiences for customers.
In addition to your work on generative AI projects, you'll have the opportunity to design, develop, and maintain systems that empower Amazon's ability to responsibly understand and interact with web content in accordance with industry best practices. This position requires creativity, passion, and extensive experience in building innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
Join us in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of web technologies. Your expertise and drive will be invaluable assets as we continue to revolutionize the way customers engage with our services.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build scalable systems to responsibly access and process available information from the web.
- Optimize the data processing architecture to ensure performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
- Develop systems to extract meaningful world-knowledge insights through advanced data processing techniques.
- Design and implement data pipelines and infrastructure that maintain data governance standards.
- Collaborate closely with scientists and cross-functional engineering teams to rapidly prototype, iterate, and deploy state-of-the-art algorithms and models that follow responsible AI principles.
- Craft high-quality, thoroughly tested production-ready code using languages such as Python, Java, and Scala.
- Continuously explore and implement innovative solutions to complex technical challenges, in order to advance what’s possible in large-scale information processing.

About the team
Our dynamic team comprises talented software engineers and applied scientists united by a shared passion for innovative content processing systems. Together, we are building a highly scalable, state-of-the-art system that seeks to harness the world’s knowledge in new ways to best serve our customers.

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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