Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands

About the role

Invent the future of conversational advertising powered by Large Language Models. Join the CAX (Conversational Ad Experiences) team, where you'll build industry-first sponsored conversational shopping experiences on Amazon Search—directly impacting how hundreds of millions of shoppers discover and engage with products.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and develop net-new conversational ad experiences on the Amazon Search page
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and ML infrastructure to power LLM-driven ad experiences in production
• Partner with the science team to implement and operationalize large language models (LLMOps)
• Build and maintain data processing pipelines that support personalized, AI-driven advertising at scale
• Pioneer new approaches to conversational AI and natural language interactions in advertising
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions across the advertising ecosystem
• Create scalable systems to deliver explicitly personalized ad experiences to hundreds of millions of shoppers
• Drive end-to-end ownership of key customer-facing functionality—from design through deployment and operations

What we're looking for

• Passionate about Generative AI, Large Language Models, and their real-world applications
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building distributed systems
• Creative problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and loves tackling complex, undefined challenges
• Track record of delivering innovative solutions that drive measurable business impact
• Enthusiasm for staying current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape

About the team

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry-leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle—from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace.

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
• Experience developing and deploying Gen AI applications