Software Development Engineer, Amazon
GENIE, Proactive Alexa
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Join our innovative Alexa Proactive team and shape the future of conversational AI
- You'll develop novel algorithms for multimodal systems, directly impacting millions of customers through vision and language technology
- As an SDE II on the Alexa Proactive team within the GENIE organization, you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects that combine Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI to create more intuitive and responsive conversational experiences
- In this role, you'll collaborate with a diverse team of experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state of the art in multimodal systems
- You'll leverage Amazon's vast data resources and computing power to accelerate development and drive innovation
- Your contributions will help define our overall strategy, from data enrichment and model optimization to system architecture and best practices
- Design and implement innovative algorithms for conversational multimodal systems
- Collaborate on strategy for data enrichment, model optimization, and evaluation
- Drive system architecture decisions and establish best practices
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate new features into Alexa products
- Contribute to the development of large-scale distributed systems
- Your typical day might involve brainstorming new approaches to improve Alexa's multimodal capabilities, coding and testing algorithms, analyzing data to refine models, and collaborating with team members to solve complex technical challenges
- You'll also participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to technical discussions that shape the future of our products
- The Alexa Proactive team is a dynamic group of engineers, researchers, and product managers dedicated to enhancing Alexa's ability to understand and respond to user needs proactively
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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