Software Development Manager Amazon Studios AI Lab

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching Prime Video is one of the worlds leading digital video services and were just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 200 countries and territories Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any ondemand video service including our criticallyacclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as The Boys The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The Underground Railroad; UKproduced hit Amazon Original series like Good Omens The Grand Tour All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur and forthcoming drama series like The Power Jungle and The Rig; exclusive TV shows like Nine Perfect Strangers and Little Fires Everywhere; and movies like Coming 2 America Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Without Remorse plus live sport including ATP and WTA Tour and US Open Tennis Autumn Nations rugby and Premier League football.

Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazons Prime Video customers. We need your passion innovative ideas and creativity to help take us to new heights.

Do you want to work at the intersection of Engineering Machine Learning Data Science and GenAI Do you like inventing growing and learning from the worldclass engineers and scientists If so we want to hear from you!

We are seeking a seasoned software engineering manager to join the Amazon Studios AI Labs team. This is a hybrid applied science and engineering team that is developing bleeding edge AI solutions to enhance efficiency elevate creativity and ultimately redefine industry standards ensuring that every decision is accelerated by intelligence and foresight. We need your passion innovative ideas and creativity to help take us to new heights.



Key job responsibilities
Youll lead a team of engineers and applied scientists (with ample support) based in London UK working on critical media processing systems that power Amazon Studios content delivery requiring both technical depth and leadership acumen to drive complex initiatives across multiple teams. As a senior technical leader youll help architect and implement scalable media processing solutions while helping to make critical technical decisions that balance speed quality and operational excellence. Your responsibilities include providing technical mentorship reviewing design documents and driving operational excellence through robust monitoring and automation. Youll own endtoend delivery of major features navigate complex crossteam dependencies and drive technical strategy aligned with business goals. The role demands strong leadership in mentoring junior engineers representing the team in senior leadership forums and making datadriven decisions that balance business needs with technical constraints. Success in this position will be measured through delivery of highquality scalable solutions team growth and retention operational excellence metrics crossteam project success and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional technical judgment leadership skills and the ability to deliver results through others while maintaining Amazons high technical standards and customerfirst mindset.

A day in the life
A typical day starts with reviewing operational metrics and addressing critical issues in our processing systems. You lead standups coordinating engineers. Your day balances operational needs with strategic planning through technical deepdives on ML architecture crossteam API reviews and alignment sessions with Product and Science leadership. You focus on team development via 1:1s and mentoring while providing technical guidance on production issues and design reviews. Documentation and communication remain constant priorities from status updates to business reviews highlighting dubbing quality improvements. Success requires strategic thinking technical depth and people management skills all focused on delivering excellent customer experiences.

About the team
This role is in a team that is building a new family of AI products for Amazon Studios. This team is considered strategic and has visibility with Prime Video Amazon Studios leadership at the highest levels. The role offers a chance to build and launch new AI services from the ground up learn the state of the art in machine learning (ML) technology and work closely with an exceptional group of product engineering and science leaders.

Experience managing engineers
Experience in engineering
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 in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
Experience in managing hybrid teams (Software Developers & Applied Scientists / ML Engineers)

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