Software Development Engineer, WHS Data-Tech

Were looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the AI and computer vision systems that keep Amazons workforce safe. This is a chance to work at the intersection of advanced machine learning and real-world impact writing code that helps reduce workplace injuries for over 1.5 million people.

Youll join a team of engineers and applied scientists developing computer vision applications real-time inference systems and cloud-native services that detect and prevent safety risks across Amazons global operations. Youll design and build production software end-to-end from ingesting and processing video and sensor data to deploying ML models at the edge to surfacing actionable insights through internal tools and APIs. If youre excited about building systems that combine deep learning distributed computing and IoT and you want to see your code make a tangible difference in peoples lives this is the role for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain production services that power computer vision and AI-based safety applications built on AWS

- Build and optimize data ingestion pipelines for video image and sensor data from edge devices deployed across Amazon facilities

- Develop APIs and backend services that integrate ML model outputs with internal safety tools and dashboards

- Collaborate with applied scientists to productionize machine learning models - handling model serving inference optimization and deployment workflows

- Write clean well-tested and maintainable code while contributing to code reviews design documents and architectural decisions

- Operate and maintain services in production including monitoring alarming troubleshooting and incident response

- Identify opportunities to improve system performance scalability and reliability as the platform scales to new sites and use cases

About the team
Amazons Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) organization is responsible for keeping over 1.5 million employees safe across our global retail operations. Within WHS our technology team builds the science and engineering capabilities that power Amazons safety strategy at scale.

Were a cross-functional group of software engineers applied scientists data engineers and technical program managers developing computer vision systems generative AI applications sensor and IoT solutions and analytics platforms - all aimed at reducing workplace safety incidents. Youll work closely with applied scientists and ML engineers to take models from research to production and collaborate with TPMs and product managers to deliver solutions that safety professionals rely on every day. Our culture values technical ownership curiosity and shipping systems that create measurable real-world impact.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning Computer Vision Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications
- Experience with AWS services including S3 Redshift Sagemaker EMR Kinesis Lambda and EC2
- Knowledge of one or more ML Frameworks (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow) and ML methods including NLP models (BERT GPT-2/3) computer vision-based models (object detection image recognition) and text-based models (Seq2Seq Topic modeling)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 TN Nashville - 136500.00 - 184700.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually