Software Development Manager, Life Sciences Applied AI
Amazon· Software Development
Seattle, WA$184.9k - $250.2kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building AI solutions that accelerate clinical trials by orchestrating autonomous AI agents to support the entire lifecycle, partnering directly with pharma/biotech customers. The role is a ground‑floor leadership position to define architecture, culture, and product from Day 1, delivering production‑grade AI agents deployed in customer AWS environments while ensuring regulatory compliance and customer focus.
Responsibilities
- Technical vision & architecture - Design and evolve the AI agent orchestration layer that powers the platform's core capabilities
- Team building - Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team of builders who thrive on ambiguity
- Customer obsession - Partner directly with beta customers product managers and UX designers to translate clinical trial pain points into elegant agent-driven solutions
- Regulatory rigor - Ensure AI explainability auditability and compliance with FDA and ICH-GCP standards - because in healthcare trust is non-negotiable
- Operational excellence - Own the end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI agents deployed into customer AWS environments
Qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Skills
Required:Engineering team leadershipArchitecting multi-tier web services
Nice to have:AI agent architectures / multi-agent orchestrationRegulatory compliance in healthcare (FDA/ICH-GCP)
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave
- RSUs and sign-on payments as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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