Software Development Manager, AI Studios

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Join us as a Software Development Manager on the AI Studios org within Amazon
Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll lead a team building
intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This
role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the development of 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 a team of engineers delivering production-quality
AI-powered creative suite while fostering a culture of technical excellence and
innovation. You'll partner closely with creative professionals (animators,
filmmakers, and storytellers), guiding your team to implement features that
directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for our
most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for engineering leaders
who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to build
and grow high-performing teams while shaping industry-defining products
featuring iconic IPs.

We're part of AI Studios, a newly established org within Prime Video & Amazon
MGM Studios, building an AI-native content creation platform at the intersection
of AI/ML, media processing, and cinematic storytelling. Our platform empowers
animators, filmmakers, and storytellers to produce professional animation and
live-action/VFX content featuring world-class IPs at unprecedented speed and
scale. As a greenfield team, our tech surface spans backend services, ML model
training and inference, media pipelines, and creator-facing tooling.

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

• Define the team's charter and technical vision in partnership with stakeholders, scientists, product managers, and creative professionals
• Own the roadmap, balancing short- and long-term decisions with clear goals to deliver on that vision
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software development engineers building our AI-native content creation platform for professional animation and live action workflows
• Drive architectural decisions across the stack — from backend services, media processing pipelines, and APIs to ML platform and creator-facing tooling
• Define metrics to measure development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence, ensuring adherence to SLAs
• Stay current with emerging technologies in AI/ML, media processing, and distributed computing, guiding the team in adoption

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: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed