Software Development Engineer - Machine Learning/AI Runtime

About the role

Amazon is seeking a customer-focused Software Development Engineer to enhance their product catalog, which is crucial for online shopping. This role involves leveraging machine learning to improve product discovery and customer experience by analyzing large datasets and developing innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with applied scientists and other engineers to take emerging agent and enrichment ideas from prototype to robust, instrumented production systems that can be evaluated, improved, and scaled
• Analyze and process large amounts of data to identify and extract valuable information from diverse sources (e.g., product catalog, customer reviews, search queries, product images, external knowledge bases)
• Actively participate in idea and roadmap generation
• Work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to enable delightful experiences for customers
• Effectively present work to all levels of the leadership
• Be an effective collaborator in a cross-functional team of SDEs, Technical Program Managers, and Product Managers
• Design and build systems to extract structured knowledge from unstructured and semi-structured data sources that extend beyond existing catalog schema
• Build LLM prompts and tune them to meet Precision and Recall requirements for novel attribute discovery
• Build scalable, efficient, and automated knowledge discovery pipelines that surface new product dimensions for both conventional and agentic consumers
• Define and evolve new schema patterns to represent previously uncaptured product knowledge