Drimva

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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