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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Search Navigation AI

Amazon· Software Development
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Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

The Amazon Search Navigation AI team builds large-scale, low-latency search refinement systems and online LLM serving to convert broad search intents into highly relevant, personalized results. The role focuses on designing and operating distributed services, optimizing LLM inference, and collaborating with scientists and product teams to productionize models and run A/B experiments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed, low-latency services that power Amazon Search Navigation experiences worldwide
  • Build and optimize online LLM serving for Smart Refinement and multi-turn conversational refinement, with a focus on latency, reliability, and cost
  • Work with Applied Scientists, Product Managers, and Program Managers to define requirements and integrate models into production systems
  • Build scalable data pipelines that process large volumes of search and behavioral data for feature generation, model training, and evaluation
  • Design, run, and analyze online A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models and features
  • Contribute to operational excellence for critical services, including monitoring, on-call, and P0 metrics and defect guardrails
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and take part in design and code reviews

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 3+ 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
  • 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureProgramming languagesObject Oriented Design

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and optional life plans
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, and flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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