Software Development Engineer, AGI Web information retrieval

Unlock the future of AI at Amazon AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). At Amazon were at the forefront of transformative AI shaping the next generation of intelligent technologies. For more than 25 years weve been pioneering state-of-the-art AI and machine learning models to revolutionize customer experiences worldwide. Now were on the cusp of a new era when AI holds the promise to reshape society and business in unprecedented ways. As part of our world-class team of AI expertsscientists engineers researchers product builders and public policy expertsyoull have the opportunity to unlock the frontiers of AGI. While the rapid advancements in Generative AI have captivated global attention we see these as just the starting point. AGI is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of whats possible using Amazons unparalleled ML infrastructure computing resources and commitment to responsible AI principles. Were looking for the brightest minds from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to help create transformative AI solutions that will improve lives solve global challenges and open up new realms of possibilityfrom reinventing commerce and accelerating enterprise productivity to advancing universal agents and shaping the future of robotics.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer within AGI to develop a multi-modal multi-lingual web-scale information retrieval system to make the worlds information accessible to AI models and customers everywhere. We are pushing the boundaries of whats possible by combining the power of large language models with retrieval systems enabling capabilities in question-answering knowledge synthesis and information grounding.
You will have an opportunity to directly impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of products that will be used every day by people you know. Were looking for someone passionate about innovating on behalf of customers who demonstrates strong product ownership and is willing to think in new ways to solve difficult problems.
You will have track record of success in delivering new products solving problems and learning new technologies quickly. A commitment to teamwork proactive approach to solving problems and strong verbal and written communication skills are essential. Creating reliable scalable and high-performance products requires technical expertise understanding of computer science fundamentals and practical experience building efficient large-scale distributed systems. This person is comfortable delivering quality solutions in a fast-growing environment where priorities may change rapidly.

Key job responsibilities
* Build high-throughput cost-effective data pipelines to support feature extraction and indexing for our web-scale Information Retrieval (IR) system
* Develop and optimize the core algorithms and ranking models that power the search engines ability to retrieve and rank relevant results for user queries.
* Design and implement efficient data structures and indexing techniques to store and retrieve massive amounts of web data and content.
* Optimize the performance scalability and reliability of the search engines core components including query parsing retrieval ranking and result rendering.
* Collaborate with machine learning teams to integrate and deploy advanced machine learning models for query understanding ranking and personalization.
* Develop and maintain the control plane systems that manage and orchestrate the IR system infrastructure including the distributed compute clusters storage systems and networking components.
* Design and implement real-time updates and freshness mechanisms to ensure the I engine reflects the latest web content and user behavior.
* Develop efficient state-of-the-art streaming algorithms for processing large datasets (e.g. deduplication topic clustering)
* Participate in the design and implementation of real-time updates and freshness mechanisms to ensure the search engine reflects the latest web content and user behavior.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 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
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Sunnyvale - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually