Software Development Engineer, WHS Data-Tech

About the role

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the AI and computer vision systems that keep Amazon's workforce safe. This is a chance to work at the intersection of advanced machine learning and real-world impact, writing code that helps reduce workplace injuries for over 1.5 million people.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production services that power computer vision and AI-based safety applications, built on AWS
• Build and optimize data ingestion pipelines for video, image, and sensor data from edge devices deployed across Amazon facilities
• Develop APIs and backend services that integrate ML model outputs with internal safety tools and dashboards
• Collaborate with applied scientists to productionize machine learning models - handling model serving, inference optimization, and deployment workflows
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while contributing to code reviews, design documents, and architectural decisions
• Operate and maintain services in production, including monitoring, alarming, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability as the platform scales to new sites and use cases

About the team

Amazon's Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) organization is responsible for keeping over 1.5 million employees safe across our global retail operations. Within WHS, our technology team builds the science and engineering capabilities that power Amazon's safety strategy at scale. We're a cross-functional group of software engineers, applied scientists, data engineers, and technical program managers developing computer vision systems, generative AI applications, sensor and IoT solutions, and analytics platforms - all aimed at reducing workplace safety incidents. You'll work closely with applied scientists and ML engineers to take models from research to production, and collaborate with TPMs and product managers to deliver solutions that safety professionals rely on every day. Our culture values technical ownership, curiosity, and shipping systems that create measurable real-world impact.

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
• 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 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent