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Base Salary
$184k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advise the Director of Design on the technical feasibility and strategic value of emerging interaction models.
- Build high-fidelity working prototypes for agentic interactions, including graduated autonomy, step-level replay, and policy-check loops.
- Invent reusable interaction patterns and components for complex technical products.
- Turn validated prototypes into production-ready Rhythm design-system components on AWS Core.
- Build tooling and systems that help teams sense, synthesize, and scale interaction patterns.
- Stress-test ambitious concepts early to assess feasibility and production readiness.
- Influence and raise the technical craft of the design organization through prototypes, tooling, pairing, and example.
Requirements
- Demonstrable portfolio of shipped, production-grade interfaces built for complex, data-dense technical products such as observability, security, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure.
- Expert frontend engineering ability with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, including production code contributions and peer collaboration with engineering.
- Experience building and maintaining design-system components at scale, including architecture, accessibility, and cross-team adoption.
- Experience translating novel and ambiguous interaction concepts into technically validated, shippable patterns.
- Experience operating at Staff or Principal level, or equivalent, as a design technologist, creative technologist, or design engineer at a top-tier technology company.
- Track record of influence as a technical advisor or force multiplier across teams without relying solely on direct authority.
- Preferred experience prototyping AI/ML and agentic experiences, including autonomous agents, human-in-the-loop workflows, progressive or graduated autonomy, step-level replay, and policy-check loops.
- Preferred experience building design-intelligence pipelines, pattern libraries, instrumentation, or similar tooling for scaling interaction patterns.
- Preferred experience in observability, security, search, or governance product domains.
- Preferred experience operationalizing research or lab findings into a production design system.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted design and build tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, or v0.
- Published thought leadership or recognized open-source or community contributions in design engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life plan options.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the overall Amazon package.
- Work location is listed in Santa Clara, California; New York, New York; Bellevue, Washington; or Seattle, Washington.
- Workplace accommodations and adjustments are available during the application and hiring process.
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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.