Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 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 data, analytics, and AI retrieval systems, as well as cloud services and APIs for simulating Amazon Leo devices.
What you'll do
- Build a scalable data lakehouse, OLAP analytics layer, and metrics repository with data quality, metadata, and compliance controls.
- Develop semantic models, federated queries, orchestration, and vector database and hybrid search capabilities for AI retrieval.
- Build low-latency cloud services and APIs to simulate satellite, gateway, and customer-terminal software.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, S3
AI focus
Build agentic AI capabilities and optimize data models, schemas, and search infrastructure for AI retrieval, including vector and hybrid search.
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