Software Development Engineer II, Special Projects

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

As a Software Development Engineer at the intersection of machine learning and the life sciences, you will participate in developing exciting products for customers. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment.


Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
* Ability to quickly learn state of the art technologies and algorithms in the field of Generative AI to participate in our journey to build the best LLMs.
* Responsible for the development and maintenance of key platforms needed for developing, evaluating and deploying LLM for real-world applications.
* Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
* Work closely with Applied scientists to process massive data, scale machine learning models while optimizing.


About the team
Our team is for engineers who enjoy team work, cross-functional collaboration and building new things. You need to be a fast learner able to independently disambiguate requirements and deliver value to customers. We are offering fast-pace, Agile environment with little bureaucracy and small operational load.