Software Development Engineer, Amazon Advertising

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the design, development, and continuous improvement of machine learning models powering SpektrBot, with a focus on enhancing answer accuracy, contextual relevance, and user trust.
• Lead experimentation with Generative AI techniques—including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and metadata refinement—to improve response quality and reduce hallucinations.
• Architect and implement scalable, low-latency inference pipelines to support real-time, production-grade GenAI applications.
• Own the end-to-end execution of ML solutions, ensuring they meet high standards of quality, performance, and reliability while delivering meaningful business insights.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Scientists, Finance, Business Analysts, Product Managers, and Sales Leaders to translate complex business needs into innovative ML solutions.
• Champion rapid iteration and experimentation, contributing to the continuous enhancement of SpektrBot and other self-service analytics tools.
• Mentor junior engineers in applied ML and GenAI best practices, code quality, system design, and debugging across the full software development lifecycle.

Requirements

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

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of industry experience building and deploying machine learning models at scale.
• Experience with end-to-end ML lifecycle including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Formal educational background not explicitly specified, but extensive professional experience required.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary ranging from $151,300/year to $261,500/year depending on geographic location and experience.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.