Software Development Manager, AI Studios
About The Position
Join us as a Software Development Manager in the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll lead teams building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This role offers an exciting opportunity to help build Nara, our AI-native content creation platform that empowers creators to produce professional animation and live action content featuring world-class intellectual properties at unprecedented speed and scale. In this role, you'll lead teams responsible for building production-quality code for AI-powered creative tools while mentoring experienced engineers and scientists. You'll work alongside creative professionals (animators, filmmakers, and storytellers) delivering features that directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for Prime Video's most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for leaders who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to grow their skills while contributing to industry-defining products featuring iconic IPs.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Nice To Haves
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor engineering teams building production-quality software for our AI-native content creation platform, supporting professional animation and live action/VFX workflows
- Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across the stack: backend services, media processing pipelines, APIs, ML model integrations, and creator-facing tooling, ensuring systems scale with production demands
- Establish and maintain high engineering standards through code review practices, testing strategies, and development processes that produce clean, reliable, and maintainable software
- Partner with cross-functional leaders including ML scientists, applied scientists, product managers, and creative professionals to translate ambiguous requirements into clear engineering roadmaps and deliverables
- Own integrations with industry-standard Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, and Storyboard Pro, coordinating across teams to deliver seamless creator experiences
- Drive operational excellence for production systems, owning reliability, incident response, monitoring, and on-call processes while continuously raising the bar on system health
- Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a culture of technical growth, constructive feedback, and ownership
- Stay current on AI/ML systems, media processing, and distributed computing trends, making build-vs-buy decisions and identifying opportunities to accelerate delivery through new technologies
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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
