Software Development Engineer, Alexa + AI & Devices, Alexa+ Devices & AI Developer Tech

Job description

Description
Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant.

Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease.

Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist.

She can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online.

At the core of Alexa+'s enhanced capabilities is a powerful large language model (LLM) architecture.

Alexa+ is able to orchestrate across tens of thousands of services and devices - a first-of-its-kind achievement.

This is enabled by experts - groups of systems, capabilities, APIs, and instructions that allow Alexa+ to accomplish specific customer tasks.

Through these experts, Alexa+ can seamlessly control smart home devices, make reservations, explore entertainment content, order groceries and meals, set reminders, and much more.

The Alexa Expert Build Platform team's charter is to enable internal and external partners to build exceptional Alexa+ experiences by managing the lifecycle of these experts.

Key job responsibilities

* Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including Large Language Models

* Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.

* Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.

* Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.

* When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.

* You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

A day in the life
A typical day will start with a morning huddle to catch up on what you and your team worked on the previous day.

This is usually followed by some white-board design discussions on the problems the team is working on, with afternoon mostly spent on project design and implementation work with a heavy dose of code reviews from and for your team along the way.

We are a fun, close knit team where everyone is ready to roll their sleeves and help each other out, push boundaries and have fun doing it!

About the team
Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower Alexa skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural, accurate, conversational, and personalized.

Skills are like apps for Alexa and provide a new channel for your content and services.

Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks like checking the news, listening to music, playing a game, and more.

Organizations and individuals can publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.

Key job responsibilities
Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including LLM
Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.
You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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