Software Development Manager, AI Studios

Join us as a Software Development Manager in the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios where youll lead teams building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This role offers an exciting opportunity to help build Nara our AI-native content creation platform that empowers creators to produce professional animation and live action content featuring world-class intellectual properties at unprecedented speed and scale.

In this role youll lead teams responsible for building production-quality code for AI-powered creative tools while mentoring experienced engineers and scientists. Youll work alongside creative professionals (animators filmmakers and storytellers) delivering features that directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for Prime Videos most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for leaders who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to grow their skills while contributing to industry-defining products featuring iconic IPs.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and mentor engineering teams building production-quality software for our AI-native content creation platform supporting professional animation and live action/VFX workflows
- Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across the stack: backend services media processing pipelines APIs ML model integrations and creator-facing tooling ensuring systems scale with production demands
- Establish and maintain high engineering standards through code review practices testing strategies and development processes that produce clean reliable and maintainable software
- Partner with cross-functional leaders including ML scientists applied scientists product managers and creative professionals to translate ambiguous requirements into clear engineering roadmaps and deliverables
- Own integrations with industry-standard Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools such as Adobe Animate After Effects Maya and Storyboard Pro coordinating across teams to deliver seamless creator experiences
- Drive operational excellence for production systems owning reliability incident response monitoring and on-call processes while continuously raising the bar on system health
- Recruit develop and retain top engineering talent fostering a culture of technical growth constructive feedback and ownership
- Stay current on AI/ML systems media processing and distributed computing trends making build-vs-buy decisions and identifying opportunities to accelerate delivery through new technologies

A day in the life
As an SDM on the AI Studios team youll split your time between people leadership technical strategy and cross-functional collaboration. A typical day
might include reviewing architecture proposals for our creator tooling platform unblocking your team on a complex live action VFX pipeline integration or
partnering with ML scientists to prioritize model improvements based on creator feedback. What makes this role unique is the opportunity to work on-site alongside VFX artists and creative professionals observing how your teams tools perform in real production workflows identifying where creators
struggle and directing engineering effort toward the highest-impact improvements. Youll run team standups drive sprint planning and facilitate retrospectives while maintaining enough technical depth to guide design decisions and evaluate tradeoffs. Youll coach engineers through increasingly
complex challenges shape team roadmaps that balance innovation with operational excellence and represent your teams work to senior leadership all while building technology that powers content featuring world-class IPs.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 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 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

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 Culver City - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually