Software Development Engineer , Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

13h

About The Position

We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Conversational Ad
Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB enables
merchants, vendors, and brand owners to drive incremental sales through
contextually relevant ads across Amazon properties (Amazon.com, Alexa, etc.) and
third-party publishers.

The CAX team specializes in developing sponsored conversational experiences
powered by large language models (LLMs). We're pioneering multiple
industry-first initiatives that, while complex and ambiguous, offer
opportunities to create significant impact for our consumers, advertisers, and
the business.

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the
advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies,
revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with
brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing
advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence
to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and
optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate
group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI
technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping
experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving
complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join
us in shaping the future of advertising.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
• Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale

Responsibilities

• Drive major product and engineering initiatives
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
• Develop ML infrastructure and LLM-based AI workflows
• Partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production
• Contribute to LLMOps
• Design, build, and operate customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level