Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted May 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship systems design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Designs and operates distributed cloud and AI systems that analyze and optimize Amazon Leo’s satellite network and deliver near-real-time operational intelligence.
What you'll do
- Build full-stack operational intelligence systems, including multi-agent AI workflows for monitoring, anomaly detection, diagnosis, and optimization.
- Develop natural-language and RAG interfaces, hybrid search, evaluation frameworks, and reinforcement-learning agents.
- Build scalable data lakehouse, analytics, and vector database components for near-real-time operational data and queries.
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.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, C#, C++, Java, Perl, S3, RAG, OLAP
AI focus
Build agentic AI systems for autonomous operational intelligence, including anomaly detection, failure prediction, triage, root-cause analysis, reinforcement-learning optimization, and natural-language RAG interfaces.
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