Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connections, Alexa Connections - Edge Intelligence

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role focused on building next-generation, on-device AI experiences for Alexa, leveraging LLMs and Generative AI for communication features like real-time effects, voice-to-text, and live translations running on the edge.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inventing the future of how millions of customers will communicate with and through Alexa.
  2. Building next-generation experiences powered by LLMs and Generative AI, enabling seamless, intelligent interactions across calling and messaging.
  3. Leveraging increasingly powerful on-device AI capabilities to enable richer communication experiences — including real-time effects, voice-to-text, and live translations running entirely on the edge — as well as in-home device-to-device connectivity to enhance the end-to-end communication experience.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ 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
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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

What the JD emphasized

  • on-device AI
  • edge intelligence
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI

Other signals

  • on-device AI
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI
  • edge intelligence