Software Development Engineer, Agentic AI

About the role

Interested in building the future of intelligent AI agents? The Agentic AI organization at AWS is on a mission to empower developers and enterprises to store and retrieve memory for autonomous agents that can reason, plan, and act using state-of-the-art GenAI systems. Our AgentCore Memory team plays a central role in this mission by enabling both short and long-term memory capabilities of agentic systems. In this role, you will work on an AWS service that is trend-setting in the Gen AI field, solving hard engineering challenges to enable machine learning-powered solutions for our customers.

As a tier-zero Amazon service, our solutions must be scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant. While experience with machine learning systems is preferred, it is not required. You will deliver strategic technical projects, design large-scale systems, and have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape technology, product, and business within a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy distributed machine learning systems and large-scale solutions for a worldwide customer base.
• Collaborate with a team of applied scientists to influence overall strategy and drive system architecture.
• Spearhead best practices that enable a quality product and mentor junior engineers.
• Deliver scalable, fault-tolerant software systems with a focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 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.
• 1+ years of Object-Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

About the Team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures. We foster an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship, with senior members providing one-on-one mentoring and thorough, constructive code reviews. We prioritize your career growth, assigning projects that develop your engineering expertise and empower you to tackle more complex tasks in the future.

AWS values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from non-traditional career paths to apply. Our inclusive culture promotes curiosity, connection, and innovation, with employee-led affinity groups and inclusion events that strengthen collaboration.

We offer continuous learning and mentorship opportunities to help you develop into a well-rounded professional. Our goal is to become Earth’s Best Employer by raising the performance bar and providing resources for career advancement.

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is:

• USA, NJ, Jersey City: $158,100 - $213,800 USD annually.
• USA, NY, New York: $158,100 - $213,800 USD annually.

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.