The Software Development Engineer role within Amazon AGI focuses on developing a multi-modal, multi-lingual web-scale information retrieval system. This position is part of a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI technology, combining large language models with advanced retrieval systems. The engineer will have the opportunity to impact customer experience through innovative product design and implementation. Candidates should be passionate about solving complex problems and delivering high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
• 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
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

• Build high-throughput, cost-effective data pipelines to support feature extraction and indexing for the web-scale Information Retrieval system.
• Develop and optimize core algorithms in Rust and ranking models for the search engine.
• Design and implement efficient data structures and indexing techniques using Rust.
• Optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of the search engine's core components.
• Collaborate with machine learning teams to integrate and deploy advanced models for query understanding and ranking.
• Develop and maintain control plane systems for managing the IR system infrastructure.
• Design and implement real-time updates to ensure the search engine reflects the latest web content and user behavior.
• Develop efficient streaming algorithms for processing large datasets.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.