Key job responsibilities
Invent New Paradigms: Move beyond traditional voice UI to build "Ambient Intelligence" experiences that span Alexa, Fire TV, and mobile/wearable surfaces, focusing on proactive assistance rather than reactive commands.
Rapid Innovation: Operate in a fast-paced environment where you will prototype, test, and deploy features that leverage multimodal inputs (camera, audio, and documents) to create personalized customer magic.
Cross-Surface Continuity: Ensure that a customer’s experience is persistent and context-aware beyond the device boundaries - whether they are at their desk using Alexa.com, in their living room with Fire TV, or on the go with a wearable.
Design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services and libraries that power AI/LLM-driven features.
Integrate and harden model providers, tools, and agent capabilities behind clean, versioned interfaces — with sane failure behavior, observability, and cost/latency awareness.
Build evaluation and regression tooling so AI behavior is measured, gated, and trustworthy — not vibes.
Apply security-conscious, fail-closed design to anything touching credentials, user data, tool execution, or autonomous actions.
Work fluently alongside AI coding assistants: decompose tasks an agent can execute, critically review AI-generated code, and keep engineering rigor high at AI speed.
A day in the life
In our team, you will get to build new products and features from the ground up. You will define and build features and tools used by thousands of developers for building for millions of customers. We work across multiple internal teams as well as product to define what we are building and make it a reality. SDEs on this team are actively writing code, as well as working on designs and mentoring others. As the Device OS org we get to work horizontally across many exciting new device types.
About the team
We’re a platform team that builds the shared AI/agent infrastructure used across multiple products. We care about correctness, safety, and developer experience in equal measure. We operate test-first, review adversarially, keep our core clean and reusable, and treat AI as a tool that raises the engineering bar.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Familiarity with Agentic Software Development using industry standard tools (Kiro, Claude, Cursor etc.)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Irvine - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
