4 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed within customer engineering teams to understand business requirements, technical architectures, and operational constraints and translate them into AI-enabled production system designs.
- Build production AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, data integrations, and agentic workflows.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications while optimizing systems for latency, reliability, and cost.
- Own the software lifecycle for assigned workstreams, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, maintenance, monitoring, evaluations, and guardrails.
- Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, and application services and resolve root causes.
- Mentor and train new team members, participate in code reviews, and coach others on producing high-quality software.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable patterns, accelerators, and team improvements.
Requirements
- US citizenship and a current, active TS/SCI US Government security clearance are required.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is required.
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience is required.
- At least 2 years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment is required.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences is required.
- Experience with agentic and spec-driven development and AI tools such as evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering is required.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Services experience, customer-facing experience, production AI/ML application deployment, startup or founder experience, technical project leadership, and experience scaling end-to-end production systems.
- Prior experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, mental health support, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon compensation package.
- Work is performed in customer environments and requires 30–50% travel.
- The application deadline is November 10, 2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.