Sde Ii, Same Day Delivery

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer II role on the Same Day Delivery Experience team, focusing on building and scaling AI-powered tools using LLMs, RAG, NLP, prompt engineering, and agentic AI workflows to enhance customer experience and protection. Responsibilities include designing and building AI tools, developing retrieval pipelines, prototyping agentic AI capabilities, and working on scalable AI/ML systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing and building AI-powered tools leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt engineering, and agentic orchestration for customer-facing and internal applications.
  2. Developing and optimizing retrieval pipelines, embedding models, and context-augmented generation systems to deliver accurate, grounded AI outputs.
  3. Prototyping and iterating on new Agentic AI capabilities including fine-tuning, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought reasoning, and tool-use patterns
  4. Working with team members on design approaches for scalable AI/ML systems that serve the Same Day Delivery network.
  5. Diving deep into complex technical problems spanning LLM application development, data interpretation, and demand planning systems

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • NLP
  • prompt engineering
  • agentic AI workflows

Nice to have

  • 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
  • vector databases
  • embedding models
  • fine-tuning
  • few-shot learning
  • chain-of-thought reasoning
  • tool-use patterns

What the JD emphasized

  • Agentic AI capabilities
  • LLM application development

Other signals

  • LLM Foundations team
  • Generative AI innovation
  • AI-powered tools