Software Dev Engineer II, Alexa for Shopping

Were working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models (LLM) and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology innovation and customer experience and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. Youll be working with talented scientists and engineers to innovate on behalf of our customers. If youre fired up about being part of a dynamic driven team then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will leverage both your engineering and machine learning background to help develop generative AI for shopping. On a day-to-day basis you will:
- Design and implementation of a stable and efficient training system for model training and reinforcement learning that scale to various of model sizes and architecture.
- Collaborate with other talented applied scientists and engineers to improve training efficiency and reliability that accelerates innovation.
- Design and implement scalable data infrastructure: that handle Amazon-scale data ingestion processing and delivery across different training and evaluation stages;
- Quickly learn and adopt state-of-the-art technologies and algorithms in the field of Generative AI.

- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques

- Masters degree in engineering technology computer science machine learning robotics operations research statistics mathematics or equivalent quantitative field or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) and 1 years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction analysis statistical modeling and communication experience

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 Companys 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 CA Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually