Software Dev Engineer, Amazon

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive individual to join the Applied AI team and help build industry-leading technologies that customers will love. This team offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the customer experience and contribute to the design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting-edge product. The mission of the Applied AI team is to enable organizations within Worldwide Amazon.com Stores to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies across various parts of our business.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II (SDEII) to join our Applied AI team to work on LLM-based solutions. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the systems and tools that enable us to accelerate knowledge operations and work in the intersection of Science and Engineering. You will push the boundaries of ML and Generative AI techniques to scale the inputs for hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue for our eCommerce business. If you have a passion for AI technologies, a drive to innovate and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to become a valued member of our team.

We are seeking someone who is to learn, and be ready to use a wide range of software and development tools required to perform the job in Python, Java, container-based development, SageMaker, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Langchain, etc.

Your work should consistently be of high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporate best practices. You should identify, follow, and enforce high development standards, working alongside Sr. SDEs.

As an SDEII, You should be able to work fairly independently using the above-mentioned tools, while also working with various stakeholders and partners, such as Applied Scientists, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, Software Development Managers, Solution Architects, and Doc writers. You should be able to integrate new software components into partner codebases, while understanding and incorporating all required concerns, including roadblocks. You should understand distributed system design patterns and be able to apply them in existing and emerging ML domains with limited guidance from Sr. SDEs.

You should help the team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, and team planning. As such, you should participate in all projects in the functional area by helping to review designs, contributing to code reviews, and helping to remove blockers. This is an opportunity to play a key role in transforming how a large ecommerce organization continues to grow. Apply now and be part of our journey towards revolutionizing the way businesses operate with AI.



Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.