Software SDE: Ambient AI for Multisurface UX

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer II for its Devices Software & Services team in Sunnyvale. You will design and ship core software that enables AI-powered experiences, building runtime, services, and tooling for reliable, scalable products used by millions of customers.

You will own components end to end, work closely with AI coding assistants, and maintain rigorous testing and code review standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Invent new paradigms beyond traditional interfaces to enable ambient intelligence across devices.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and deploy features using multimodal inputs to personalize customer experiences.
• Build scalable backend services and libraries powering AI/LLM features.
• Integrate and harden model providers and tools behind clean interfaces with observability and cost/latency awareness.
• Develop evaluation and regression tooling to ensure trustworthy AI behavior with gated checks.

Skills

Programming experience

System design

Reliability and scaling

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer II for its Devices Software & Services team in Sunnyvale. You will design and ship core software that enables AI-powered experiences, building runtime, services, and tooling for reliable, scalable products used by millions of customers.

You will own components end to end, work closely with AI coding assistants, and maintain rigorous testing and code review standards in a fast-paced environment.