Software Development Engineer , Adaptive Search Relevance

Build the multi-agent orchestration platform that autonomously executes ML research workflows from hypothesis generation through production deployment accelerating how we deliver relevant sponsored products to hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers. Youll work at the intersection of Generative AI large-scale ML infrastructure and search relevance at massive scale.

The Sponsored Products Search Relevance (SPSR) team helps shoppers easily find and discover the most relevant sponsored products while improving advertisers ability to reach the right shoppers in the right context. We develop capabilities to understand shopper queries shopping missions and product attributes to identify contextually relevant ASINs and we make CX/UX improvements so shoppers can perceive why products are relevant and efficiently navigate Amazons vast selection. This is AI-first engineering: youll build the systems that dramatically increase scientist throughput and ship relevance improvements to production at scale.


Key job responsibilities
- Build and scale a multi-agent orchestration platform that autonomously executes research workflows from hypothesis generation and experiment design through training evaluation and production deployment with fault tolerance cost controls and security compliance
- Develop AI-first Auto Research systems that parallelize hypothesis testing across compute incorporating tournament-based proposal filtering and human-in-the-loop review to dramatically increase scientist throughput
- Own platform reliability and developer experience including multi-tenant GPU scheduling observability eval frameworks and knowledge services ensuring agents and scientists operate on a stable extensible foundation
- Productionize LLM/VLM models with a focus on efficiency throughput and low-latency serving
- Collaborate with scientists and engineers to design and build data pipelines for processing massive datasets and scaling ML and LLMs
- Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to ensure solutions deliver measurable improvements in customer-perceived relevance

About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers enhance the shopping experience and strengthen the marketplace. If youre energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI join us in shaping the future of advertising.

- 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
- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques
- Demonstrated track record of innovative AI agent solution development

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 Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually