Software Development Engineer III, Special Projects

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur A builder A dreamer This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the companys Think Big leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. If youre interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local regional and global. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at the intersection of machine learning and the life sciences you will participate in developing exciting products for customers. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative entrepreneurial startup-like environment.


Key job responsibilities
- Deploy and execute ML models to deliver results for downstream customers.
- Design and implement cross-functional services processing large volumes of data.
- Ensure integrity of ML and data pipelines to maintain customer trust
- Efficiently collaborate with science teams to drive new initiatives.


About the team
Our team is for engineers who enjoy team work cross-functional collaboration and building new things. You need to be a fast learner able to independently disambiguate requirements and deliver value to customers. We are offering fast-pace Agile environment with little bureaucracy and small operational load.

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

- 5 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
- Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually