Software Development Manager, Prime Video Search

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

The Prime Video Search Engineering team is looking for a Software Development Manager with a strong technical background, and a passion for search technologies, applied science, information retrieval problems, and digital entertainment. We are making a step change in the look, feel and quality of our Search experience. We are standing up a brand new Search Engine that need to handle 1B+ requests every month. We are innovating with cutting edge Machine Learning technologies like Large Language Models including Retrieval-Augmented Generation techniques, and developing net new Named Entity Recognition and Natural Language Understanding models.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video Search even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

Key job responsibilities
* You will join and lead a team of passionate engineers, software leaders and product owners who innovate and develop new ways to search for video content across Prime Video's expanding catalog.
* You will lead projects that develop scalable, tier-1, AWS-based software platforms that serve 1B+ search operations each month.
* You will lead innovation projects that involve cutting edge Machine Learning technologies like Large Language Models including Retrieval-Augmented Generation techniques, and developing net new Named Entity Recognition and Natural Language Understanding models
* You will work with data engineers and applied scientists to experiment and launch new features and algorithms to improve the accuracy and efficacy of the search, and measure their impact.
* Finally, you will partner with senior leaders across the org in developing a strategic vision for Prime Video, while also mentoring and developing a team of enthusiastic engineers.
This role reports into a Senior Manager, and has direct exposure to Directors and VPs.

A day in the life
You will lead a "two-pizza" teams crafting delightful search experience for our customers. You'll leverage generative AI and machine learning to revolutionize how customers discover and engage with content. Your day will involve leading the development of cutting-edge models to power personalized content recommendations and dynamic content curation. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists and applied scientists. With your expertise in machine learning, cloud architectures and distributed systems, you'll ensure these AI-driven solutions are scalable, reliable, and responsible, while continuously innovating to deliver delightful customer experiences.