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Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer, AGI Content Acquisition team in Sunnyvale, California

Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our AI data gathering team and work on supporting exciting generative AI projects.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our systems that acquire content for information grounding and training foundational models. You'll work closely with Science partners on data requirements for training their models. This position requires creativity, passion, and experience with building innovative solutions to complex technical problems.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable content acquisition and data extraction systems to acquire data.

• Build automation data pipelines and insights using big data frameworks (e.g., Spark) to acquire petabytes of data and visualize important KPI's to enable technical direction.

• Optimize our data architecture for scale, low latency, resilience and cost efficiency.

• Implement robust systems to process content and extract meaning.

• Develop data pipelines and infrastructure to support petabyte-scale datasets.

• Work closely with scientists and other engineers to rapidly prototype and deploy new algorithms.

• Write high quality, well-tested production code in languages like Python, Spark, Java, Scala.

A day in the life

As a Senior Software Developer, you will be leading a team of software engineers and collaborating with applied scientists to develop novel processes for constructing and enhancing structured information retrieval systems; and enable high precision/recall & low latency access to knowledge in AKG.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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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