Sr. Software Engineer-Agentic AI, Amazon Connect (AWS)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Connect is an AI-powered customer experience solution. As a Sr. SDE on the Agentic AI team, you will design and build end-to-end systems, partnering with scientists to turn research into reliable capabilities that scale with customer workloads.

You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and help shape the platform that measures agentic AI quality and improves it in production. This role offers fast growth, a chance to influence product direction, and meaningful impact across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end systems for Agentic AI capabilities in Amazon Connect.
• Collaborate with scientists to turn new research into production-ready features.
• Lead engineering efforts, mentor teammates and raise the engineering bar across the organization.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Leadership / mentorship

Design / architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Sr. Software Engineer-Agentic AI, Amazon Connect

Job ID: 10581907 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

Amazon Connect is an AI-powered customer experience solution that enables superior outcomes at a lower cost. Since its 2017 public launch Amazon Connect has become an AI leader transforming how organizations of all types interact with their customers.

Do you want to build the closed-loop platform that measures agentic AI quality and automatically improves it, alongside a team of innovative developers and scientists?

As a Sr. SDE on this team, you will design and build these systems end to end and partner closely with scientists to turn new science into capabilities customers can rely on. You will drive technical vision, influence product direction, and raise the engineering bar across the organization. You will be responsible for leading the team in building and maintaining capabilities within our best-in-class Agentic AI offering, as well as scaling those systems to support our customers' workflow orchestration automation needs.

We have a rapidly growing customer base and an exciting charter in front of us that includes solving highly complex engineering and algorithmic problems. We are looking for passionate and talented Software Development Engineers to join us to innovate on this new service that addresses customer needs to build modern contact centers in the cloud. The position represents a rare opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing business soon after launch and help shape the technology and product as we grow. You will be playing a crucial role in developing the next generation customer resolution platform and get the opportunity to design and deliver scalable resilient systems while maintaining a constant customer focus.

About the team

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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

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

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

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