Amazon · 7 hours ago
Senior Software Development Engineer, AGI - Information Grounding and Proactive Services
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their AGI organization and build innovative applications leveraging generative AI. The role involves designing scalable services, writing code, testing, troubleshooting operational problems, and influencing product direction.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Build a scalable information grounding service that provides grounding evidence to multiple Amazonian experiences
Grounding large language models (LLMs) ensures that their interactions with users are informed, relevant, consistent, and trustworthy
It ensures accuracy and relevance by providing context-specific responses and mitigating the risk of generating false information through techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Grounding allows LLMs to adapt to rapid information changes without constant retraining, maintaining up-to-date and reliable outputs
This is accomplished by linking the models' outputs to verifiable sources of information retrieved from public web sources (e.g., WebIR) and other structured data sources (e.g., knowledge graphs, local databases)
Grounding LLMs involves two main steps: 1/ providing relevant evidence from knowledge sources for the customer query and packing it into the LLM context window, and 2/ optimizing LLM (e.g., SFT, RLHF) to use this evidence appropriately, minimizing irrelevance or hallucinations
Design & Write code: Write code primarily in Java and design scalable, fault tolerant and distributed applications running on AWS technology
Leverage state of the art AWS resources in the development of a scalable web grounding service for LLM based applications
Test, test, test: Our software engineers don't just write code, they also test the heck out of it
You will write unit tests, integration tests and regression tests and find ways to automate them
Troubleshoot and fix operational problems: You will work with systems engineers to troubleshoot operational problems and fix them
If you are so inclined, you will also automate troubleshooting procedures and write tools
And when the issues concern specific customers, you will also have the opportunity to talk to them and understand their space better
Influence product direction: You will propose your ideas for the future of the space to product management and get to shape the roadmap
Hire and mentor others: You will get to interview people for the team and to mentor other engineers
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred
5+ 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
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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