Software Development Engineer, AI Foundations, Amazon Leo AI Foundations

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Leo AI Foundations in Redmond seeks a Software Development Engineer to build AI agents that diagnose network issues and improve reliability across the Leo satellite network. You will design scalable services, review code, and own features from inception to production, collaborating with engineers, operators, and PMs.

The role requires 5+ years of software development, ML/LLM fundamentals, and leadership experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience as a mentor/tech lead.
• ML/LLM fundamentals including architecture and optimization.
• Experience leading design or architecture of complex systems.
• Strong coding and code-review skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AI agents diagnosing network issues from telemetry and logs.
• Turn tools and data sources into reusable agent capabilities.
• Build evaluation harnesses to measure agent accuracy, coverage, and latency.
• Own services in production: on-call, metrics, RCA, and security reviews.
• Collaborate with principal engineers, operators, and PMs to ship features.
• Write design docs and perform thoughtful code reviews.

Skills

5+ years of professional software

Mentor / tech lead

ML/LLM fundamentals

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AI Foundations, Amazon Leo AI Foundations

Job ID: 10591537 | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Amazon Leo is Amazon's Low Earth Orbit satellite network, built to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. The AI Foundations team builds AI agents that turn Leo's best troubleshooting expertise into diagnoses in minutes instead of hours, helping keep the network available for every customer.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AI agents and services that diagnose network and connectivity issues using telemetry, logs, and engineering knowledge.
• Turn proven engineering tools and data sources into reusable agent tools so teams across Leo can build on them.
• Build evaluation harnesses that measure agent accuracy, coverage, and latency, and use them to gate launches.
• Own your services in production: on-call, operational metrics, root-cause analysis, and security reviews.
• Partner with principal engineers, operators, and program managers to turn ambiguous problems into shipped features.
• Write clear design docs, give thoughtful code reviews, and help teammates adopt agentic development practices.

A day in the life

You might start the morning reviewing overnight evaluation results and spotting a class of network failures your agent misdiagnosed. You trace the gap to a missing data source, then sit down with the principal engineer who owns that subsystem to agree on how to expose their tool to the agent. After lunch you build the integration and add new test cases, then review a teammate's pull request. Late afternoon, you join an operations review where an operator walks through a real incident your agent helped resolve, and you leave with a clear next priority.

About the team

We are an AI-native team of software engineers and applied scientists in Redmond, and we move fast. We use AI in how we build, not only in what we build, so a good idea can be a working experiment the same week and a production capability the next. We think beyond how things have been done, test our ideas against real problems, and keep only what proves itself. We ship lightning fast, and we hold a high bar for quality and production readiness while doing it.

Basic 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
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Redmond - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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