Software Development Engineer, Prime Science

About the role

Amazon Prime’s Science organization leads the Research & Development towards innovation for Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is the backbone of Amazon’s consumer business and aspires to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program, driving growth and profitability. The program serves over 200 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazon’s customer growth and engagement. Prime Science innovates in Artificial Intelligence (inc. Gen AI) and Economics, to develop algorithms and systems for automated marketing, personalization, targeting, and decisioning. Within the engineering group in Prime Science, we develop world class solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems at Amazon scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build science products that scale to 100's of millions of customers
• Work alongside a multi-disciplinary team to deliver with high quality on hard science problems
• Interface with internal customers to build science products that solve their needs
• Grow more junior engineers and be force multiplier
• Identify operational challenges early in the system and drive operational excellence
• Contribute to and lead the improvements in development processes

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 2+ years of building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization or search experience
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Benefits

Ambitious career opportunities, competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture are just some of the perks of joining Amazon. Visit our careers site for more details: https://www.amazon.jobs.