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Senior Software Development Engineer, AI Acceleration, Amazon Games

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$168,100 - $227,400 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Senior Software Development Engineer will join the AI acceleration team at Amazon Games, focusing on embedding with internal teams to develop and deploy AI-powered productivity solutions. This role emphasizes hands-on building, translating ambiguous problems into technical solutions, and creating reusable platform capabilities. The engineer will work closely with various teams, ensuring the solutions are adopted and effective. This position offers an exciting opportunity to leverage AI to transform team workflows and enhance productivity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Experience with AWS or cloud technologies.
  • 5+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle.
  • 4+ years of experience in the Games Industry.
  • Master's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
  • Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with internal teams to scope, design, and ship AI-powered productivity solutions into production.
  • Define success with each team and stay accountable until the solution is live and adopted.
  • Achieve a working production deployment quickly and enable teams to operate and build on the solution.
  • Turn learnings from engagements into reusable platform capabilities, agents, SDKs, and patterns.
  • Identify high-value productivity use cases and partner with domain experts to build transformative workflows.
  • Track the latest AI methodologies and tooling, bringing the best into Amazon Games.
  • Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI solutions using native AWS.
  • Ensure enterprise-grade security, compliance, and responsible AI underpin every solution.

Benefits

  • 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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

3,290

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

32,937

FY2026

Entry-level share

10.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+9%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-44%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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