Key job responsibilities
This role will be critical in redesigning how ads contribute to a personalized, relevant, and inspirational shopping experience, with the customer value proposition at the forefront. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems for Sponsored Products and Brands advertising.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and services to improve ad retrieval, allocation, and recommendations.
- Apply Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver more relevant, personalized ad and shopping experiences.
- Collaborate with applied scientists, product managers, and other engineers to define and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and continuous improvement.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team, you will help build hyper-scale online systems, offline data pipelines, and machine learning infrastructure-leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform advertising and shopping experiences. You will have the opportunity to transform core areas such as ad retrieval, ad allocation, whole-page relevance, and differentiated recommendations by designing and delivering high-quality, architecturally sound systems aligned with business needs. With the support of GenAI, you will design globally scalable solutions that evolve in the right long-term direction while delivering iterative value to customers. This is a rare opportunity to redefine how ads are retrieved, allocated, and experienced-elevating them into personalized, contextually aware, and inspiring parts of the customer journey. If you are passionate about applying frontier AI to solve real-world problems at massive scale and impact, this is your chance to define the next chapter of advertising engineering.
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
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution, or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience in software development
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience Experienced with end-to-end ownership of major project deliverables
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, Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
