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Software Dev Engineer II, Personal Devices

Amazon.com Inc

  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    This is hands-on building at the intersection of consumer hardware, cloud services, and agentic AI, on a team shipping new-to-world products on tight timelines. We are building a new class of Alexa-powered personal devices, and we need engineers who want to build the systems and experiences that hundreds of millions of customers will touch every day.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSunnyvale, CA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    The future of personal computing is being reimagined for agentic AI, and the software that brings it to life has to be fast, reliable, and delightful from the very first interaction. We are building a new class of Alexa-powered personal devices, and we need engineers who want to build the systems and experiences that hundreds of millions of customers will touch every day.

    As a Software Development Engineer on the Personal Mobile Devices team, you will design, build, and ship the software that powers next-generation wearable devices and the agentic experiences that run on them. You will write production code across the stack - on-device, service, and AI integration layers - and own features end to end, from design through launch and operation. This is hands-on building at the intersection of consumer hardware, cloud services, and agentic AI, on a team shipping new-to-world products on tight timelines.

    You will work closely with senior and principal engineers, applied scientists, product managers, and designers to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software. You will be given real ownership early, and the support to grow in your career.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design, implement, test, and operate high-quality software components and features for personal device experiences, owning them from design through production.
    • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews, raising the quality bar for yourself and the team.
    • Partner with senior engineers to translate product and design requirements into sound technical designs, making pragmatic trade-offs across performance, reliability, and time-to-market.
    • Debug and resolve issues across the stack - on-device software, backend services, and AI/agent integration layers - and improve the systems that surface them.
    • Contribute to operational excellence: build monitoring, alarming, and automation that keep services healthy, and participate in on-call rotations.
    • Collaborate across engineering, applied science, design, and product to ship features on schedule, communicating status and risks clearly.
    • Continuously learn - new tools, frameworks, and agentic AI capabilities - and bring that knowledge back to the team.

    About the team

    Join a fast-paced, high energy, collaborative team working to define the future of Alexa powered Personal Devices! We can promise that you will work hard, do exciting work, and have the opportunity to invent and ship delightful devices and experiences for our customers, and in the process learn and grow.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

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