2 days ago
Base Salary
$185k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, and operation of core conversational discovery platform components.
- Design hybrid systems combining LLM-based semantic understanding with personalization and ranking signals.
- Prototype, evaluate, and productionize LLM-powered conversation and recommendation features.
- Optimize LLM inference for latency, cost, and quality at massive scale.
- Build evaluation and quality-gating mechanisms for relevance, personalization, diversity, and safety.
- Write significant production code, conduct code reviews, and improve engineering standards.
- Participate in on-call, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for Tier-1 AI systems.
- Integrate with inference infrastructure, feature storage, experimentation platforms, and other partner systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: 5+ years across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and additional medical, wellness, life insurance, flexible spending, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The base salary range is $184,900.00–$250,200.00 USD annually for USA, New York, New York.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.