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Seattle - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 129300 - 223600

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Alexa is the pathbreaking intelligent agent that has changed customers lives and made voice driven experiences a reality today. If you are passionate about innovating in the space of artificial intelligence and are a highlymotivated talented software engineer who wants to bring AI into the lives of our youngest customers then come join the newly formed Alexa Kids Experience team. To realize our vision of making Alexa a fun supportive and educational companion for kids engineers on our team must innovate to build unique Alexa experiences from groundup and solve a range of technical challenges across the Alexa architecture. We will leverage speech recognition natural language processing interactive voice dialogs distributed systems knowledge graph and much more to build solutions that scale to millions of devices and customers across the globe.

If you are holding out for an opportunity to:

Make a huge impact as an individual
Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions
Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
Work with machine learning systems to deliver real experiences not just research

And you constantly look for opportunities to
Innovate simplify reduce waste and increase efficiencies
Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
Automate processes otherwise performed by humans
Learn from others and help grow those around you

...then we would love to chat!

In 2025 we have the opportunity to build new products and features from the ground up with generative AI and we are looking for strong bias for action engineering leaders who are not afraid of taking bold bets and trying new things to improve customer experience for Alexa.

As part of a new and growing team you will be iterating on new features and products to help drive innovation and expansion. You will work on crossfunctional and crossdomain opportunities; tackle challenging projects aim to accelerate experimentations in Alexa; and build out operating mechanisms and technology to enable novel customer experiences. You will be instrumental in setting the team culture quality bar engineering best practices and norms. Mentoring and growing the team around you will be one of the primary ways you measure your own success. You will have the opportunity to contribute and develop deep expertise in the areas of distributed systems machine learning conversational technologies user interfaces (including voice and natural user interfaces) data storage and data pipelines.

This role is exciting for engineers who love to apply startup mindset to their daytoday enjoy working crossfunctionally to master both business and technology knowledge and are passionate about building engineering best practices. If you are looking for opportunity to learn grow and lead this is the position for you.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit
This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Employment Type

Full-Time

Department / Functional Area

Software Development

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