Software Dev Engineer II, Alexa Speech Middleware

Join the team that brought you the Echo Show and Echo Spot touch-screen enabled Alexa devices that supports video calling music weather and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV Kindle and the Echo family of devices. Were just getting started and wed love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.

You dont need any experience in those specific technologies just an enthusiasm to build software particularly around user interfaces cross-device APIs or cloud-based services. If this sounds appealing to you please contact us and wed love to chat!

In this role you will:
- Invent new experiences for our customers.
- Collaborate with UX and Product owners to define customer experience and product direction.
- Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Building software that enables integration of Alexa voice and multi-modal services into compelling applications that run on millions of Echo family devices and Alexa-enabled Devices.
- Driving engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence Security Quality etc.) and setting high standards by taking proactive measures to fix deficiencies and make continous improvement of end product.
- Adopting innovating and driving efficiencies using Gen AI tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle from design and coding to testing and deployment.
- Contribute to the professional growth of team members through code reviews knowledge sharing and promoting engineering best practices

A day in the life
In this role you will build software experiences that millions of customers use daily. You will design and implement multi-modal applications that blend voice touch and visual interfaces into seamless experiences.

You will own features end-to-end from requirements through deployment collaborating with UX and Product to navigate ambiguity and make tradeoff decisions. You will embrace AI-native development leveraging Gen AI tools across the entire SDLC: design code generation testing and deployment.

You will drive engineering excellence through code reviews operational best practices and mentoring teammates all in a fast-paced Agile environment where customer impact is immediate and the opportunity to invent is constant.

About the team
We are the team that brought Echo Show to millions of homes worldwide. Our engineers work in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment. We would love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.

- 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 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
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Knowledge of Python and/or C programming
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques

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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 VA Arlington - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually