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The Alexa AI team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive SDM to play pivotal role in the development of runtime services for industry-leading conversational assistant capabilities.

At Amazon, we have a peculiar culture built on pioneering into unknown and new frontiers. From selling books to creating the Kindle; from making films to launching faster delivery, Amazon reinvents normal. After selling the first book in 1995, we have grown at an incredible rate and have become the universe’s most customer-centric company. By hiring those who take risks and find fulfillment through making the impossible commonplace, Amazon cultivates a culture of innovation. Every employee at Amazon has the power to forge their own path and to have a true impact on the business…and we find that exhilarating!

When we hire you at Amazon, we hire for the future. With unlimited career opportunities, Amazon invests in ensuring our teams are always challenged, constantly learning from each other, and are creatively contributing to our next big idea. You will be surrounded by the best innovators of our time and we welcome you to make history with us! We value diversity!

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to build and operate the next generation architecture for the core runtime Orchestration platform and enable new dimensions of customer experiences on Alexa. You will lead a group of talented engineers, who help shape core of Alexa engine, and builds capabilities that plays a major role in the evolution of industry-leading conversational assistance capabilities. Your time with us will be impactful, and your vision, creativeness and engineering output adopted by teams across Amazon and beyond.

* Responsible for the development and maintenance of key platform services interfacing with large language models required for building conversational agents.
* Work with Applied Science Mangers, TPMs, PMTs, PEs to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
* Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against tight schedules.

As a member of leadership team in the org, you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.


A day in the life
As an SDM with the Alexa AI team, you will be responsible for leading the development high performance, low latency, very advanced runtime engineering solutions to advance the state of the art Conversational Assistant agents. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of conversational agent innovations. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic framework to improve Conversational Excellence. You will drive the system architecture the best practices that enable a quality infrastructure. You will hire and develop and world class engieering team.

About the team
Join our Alexa AI team and work at the forefront of AI. Gain valuable experience and accelerate your career growth. This is a unique opportunity to create history and shape the future of artificial intelligence.