Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AI Studios Engineering
$144K–$194K
Culver City, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years system design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ year Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and maintain software for Nara, an AI-powered content creation platform supporting animation and live-action/VFX workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop backend services, APIs, media pipelines, ML integrations, and creator-facing tools; integrate with digital content creation software.
- Collaborate with engineering, science, product, and creative teams; write, test, and review maintainable code.
- Troubleshoot production systems and help improve reliability, monitoring, alerting, and documentation; participate in on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience developing large-scale applications or systems using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming in at least one language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, Adobe Animate, After Effects, Maya, Storyboard Pro
AI focus
Develop AI-powered creative tools, integrate ML models and proprietary AI systems, and support AI-native animation and live-action/VFX content creation.
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