10 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Embed within customer engineering teams and translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
- Design and develop production AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, and data integrations.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences optimized for latency, reliability, and cost.
- Own the full software lifecycle, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, maintenance, monitoring, and incident response.
- Implement evaluations, guardrails, and operational practices to keep AI systems healthy and resolve root causes of production issues.
- Mentor and train new team members, participate in code reviews, and coach others on producing high-quality code.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and codify reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments.
- Travel 30–50% as required by customer engagements.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with agentic and spec-driven development, with AI agent development as a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred experience with at least three years of the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred experience working in customer production environments and building or deploying AI/ML applications in production.
- Preferred background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
- Preferred experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred experience interfacing with customers, leading technical projects with external stakeholders, scaling end-to-end production systems, and working with AWS services.
Benefits
- 30–50% travel is required for customer engagements.
- AWS offers flexibility and work-life harmony through its work-life balance culture.
- Employees have access to mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Amazon supports employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
- Workplace accommodations and hiring-process support are available for candidates with disabilities.
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.