Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products, Autonomous Campaigns

Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of GenAI/LLM powered self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazons Selling Partners and key to driving their long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

This role will be within the Autonomous Campaigns org of Sponsored Products Ads, where we're pioneering the development of AI-powered advertising innovations that will redefine the future of campaign management and optimization. Our team is at the forefront of designing and implementing these transformative technologies, which will leverage advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) and sophisticated chain-of-thought reasoning to achieve true advertising autonomy. By harnessing the power of these future-state GenAI systems, we will develop advertising solutions capable of autonomously selecting optimal keywords, dynamically adjusting bids based on complex market conditions, and optimizing product targeting across various Amazon platforms. Crucially, these systems will continuously analyze performance metrics and implement strategic pivots, all without requiring manual intervention from advertisers, allowing them to focus on their core business while our AI works tirelessly on their behalf.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer, who can drive appropriate AI/ML technology choices for the business. You will build services to handle billions of requests per day, while maintaining response latencies in milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. It is quite routine for our systems to operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks. You will design and code, troubleshoot, and support high volume and low latency distributed systems. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazon's customers. You will directly impact our customers shopping experience while helping our sellers get the maximum ROI from advertising on Amazon. This role will provide exposure to cutting-edge innovations in product search, information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and GenAI.

Key job responsibilities
Drive the direction of our technical solutions, and work on many different technologies such as deep learning, AWS, Auto ML, real-time ML serving systems.

Design, develop, and production software to support scalable offline machine-learning pipelines and online serving components.

Work closely with engineers and applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models, improve the teams machine learning productivity, and advance the technical foundation to empower our science innovation. What you create is also what you own.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.