Software Development Engineer (Java/AWS), Alexa AI

Are you interested in creating and delivering innovative consumer software products that impact millions of customers worldwide? We're expanding our team and looking for a collaborative Software Development Engineer to join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team.

Our team is seeking a skilled and thoughtful engineer to contribute to the development of industry-leading conversational assistant capabilities.

In this role, you'll own and drive large-scale customer-facing features from conception to delivery and beyond. You'll have the opportunity to design, architect, and build innovative consumer products used daily by people in your community.

We aim to enhance the experience for Alexa devices through continuous improvement and innovation. Working with Amazon Alexa offers a creative, fast-paced environment where you'll be at the center of meaningful innovation. Join us in building the future of Amazon devices and services!


Key job responsibilities
We are looking for talented Software Development Engineers to build the next generation architecture for the core runtime Orchestration platform and enable new dimensions of customer experiences on Alexa. You will work with the engineering team which shapes core of Alexa engine, and builds capabilities that plays a major role in the evolution of industry-leading conversational assistance capabilities. Your time with us will be impactful, and your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond.

* Responsible for the development and maintenance of key platform services interfacing with large language models required for building conversational agents.
* Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
* Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against tight schedules.

As a member of the team you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

A day in the life
As a SDE with the Alexa team, you will be responsible for leading the development high performance, low latency, Advanced runtime engineering solutions to advance the state of the art Conversational Assistant agents. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of conversational agent innovations. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) to improve Conversational Excellence. You will drive the system architecture the best practices that enable a quality infrastructure.

About the team
Join our Alexa team at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation. You'll collaborate with scientists and engineers to develop next-generation conversational assistant capabilities using advanced LLM techniques.