Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick
About the role
Amazon Quick is revolutionizing workplace productivity through innovative generative AI technology. As a AI-powered assistant, it transforms how enterprises operate by empowering employees to be more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive. Unlike traditional AI assistants, Quick leverages artificial intelligence to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on enterprise data.
Responsibilities
- Build features in Amazon Quick that are trend-setting in the Gen AI field
- Solve the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning powered solutions for our customers
- Design, develop, and optimize the platform's core components
- Ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability
- Deliver some of our most strategic technical projects
- Deliver large scalable systems
- Design new software systems
- Have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position
- Mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues
Requirements
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Qualifications
- Experience in Full Stack and Gen-AI development
- 5+ years shipping production software with depth in distributed Python services, TypeScript/React desktop apps, or LLM-backed agent runtimes.
- Strong Python and TypeScript/React, with Electron production experience.
- WebSockets and event-driven streaming architectures.
- LLM application engineering on AWS Bedrock or comparable platforms — agent frameworks, orchestration, and interoperability protocols (MCP, A2A, ACP)
- Approaches for Memory and Knowledge graphs, semantic search, and vector stores.
- Owns features end-to-end: tests, evals, telemetry, docs, code review.
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Pay
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.
- 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
Schedule
Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.