Sr. Software Dev Engineer, SageMaker AI

About the role

Join us in building the future of AI-powered data preparation with SageMaker, where we're revolutionizing how organizations ensure data quality for their machine learning initiatives. As part of a strategic initiative to create next-generation data quality and evaluation systems, you'll work at the intersection of the latest AI and foundational ML infrastructure. The AI data labeling market is exploding — $3.2B in 2026, projected $25B by 2028 — and the bottleneck to better AI is no longer compute, it's high-quality labeled data at scale. We're building the platform that solves this: auto-labeling with statistical quality guarantees, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and human verification — all unified under one managed service.

This is an opportunity to be part of a team launching innovative AI-powered data preparation products from the ground up. You'll architect systems that produce training data at human quality and machine scale — where LLMs label, humans verify, and the system continuously improves from every correction. The role offers high visibility with AWS leadership and the chance to shape products that will transform how businesses prepare and govern their ML data.

Responsibilities

• Data Preparation Platform: Design and deliver core components of the data preparation journey to customize and fine-tune LLMs in SageMaker, designing systems that provide customers with high-quality, reliable data for their ML workflows.
• Drive Innovation in Data Preparation: Build and scale systems leveraging auto-labeling and LLM-as-Judge techniques to automatically detect, diagnose, and remediate data quality issues.
• Agent & Model Quality: Establish quality standards and evaluation frameworks for AI agents and models, implementing continuous improvement processes.
• Human-in-the-Loop Services: Lead the evolution of our HITL suite, enabling seamless human feedback loops for data labeling, annotation quality assurance, and ground truth generation.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise the engineering quality bar across the team. Influence technical direction without formal authority.
• Architecture & Strategy: Make high-judgment architectural decisions across distributed systems, data processing, and ML infrastructure. Own the technical roadmap for your area.

About the team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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 building ML pipelines, data processing systems, or evaluation infrastructure at scale
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (prompting, fine-tuning, structured output, confidence calibration)

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position in Seattle, WA is $168,100 - $227,400 USD annually. 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.