POSTED Jun 11
Software Development Engineer, Alexa Kids Experience, Alexa Kids Experience
at Amazon ⋅ US, WA, Seattle
Alexa is the groundbreaking intelligent agent that has changed customers’ lives and made voice driven experiences a reality today. If you are passionate about innovating in the space of artificial intelligence and are a highly-motivated, talented software engineer who wants to bring AI into the lives of our youngest customers, then come join the newly formed Alexa Kids Experience team. To realize our vision of making Alexa a fun, supportive, and educational companion for kids, engineers on our team must innovate to build unique Alexa experiences from ground-up and solve a range of technical challenges across the Alexa architecture. We will leverage speech recognition, natural language processing, interactive voice dialogs, distributed systems, knowledge graph, and much more, to build solutions that scale to millions of devices and customers across the globe.
If you are holding out for an opportunity to:
Make a huge impact as an individual
Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions
Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
Work with machine learning systems to deliver real experiences, not just research
And you constantly look for opportunities to…
Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies
Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
Automate processes otherwise performed by humans
Learn from others and help grow those around you
...then we would love to chat!
In 2024, we have the opportunity to build new products and features from the ground up with generative AI and we are looking for strong, bias for action engineering leaders who are not afraid of taking bold bets and trying new things to improve customer experience for Alexa.
As part of a new and growing team, you will be iterating on new features and products to help drive innovation and expansion. You will work on cross-functional and cross-domain opportunities; tackle challenging projects aim to accelerate experimentations in Alexa; and build out operating mechanisms and technology to enable novel customer experiences. You will be instrumental in setting the team culture, quality bar, engineering best practices, and norms. Mentoring and growing the team around you will be one of the primary ways you measure your own success. You will have the opportunity to contribute and develop deep expertise in the areas of distributed systems, machine learning, conversational technologies, user interfaces (including voice and natural user interfaces), data storage and data pipelines.
This role is exciting for engineers who love to apply startup mindset to their day-to-day, enjoy working cross-functionally to master both business and technology knowledge, and are passionate about building engineering best practices. If you are looking for opportunity to learn, grow and lead, this is the position for you.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
If you are holding out for an opportunity to:
Make a huge impact as an individual
Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions
Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
Work with machine learning systems to deliver real experiences, not just research
And you constantly look for opportunities to…
Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies
Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
Automate processes otherwise performed by humans
Learn from others and help grow those around you
...then we would love to chat!
In 2024, we have the opportunity to build new products and features from the ground up with generative AI and we are looking for strong, bias for action engineering leaders who are not afraid of taking bold bets and trying new things to improve customer experience for Alexa.
As part of a new and growing team, you will be iterating on new features and products to help drive innovation and expansion. You will work on cross-functional and cross-domain opportunities; tackle challenging projects aim to accelerate experimentations in Alexa; and build out operating mechanisms and technology to enable novel customer experiences. You will be instrumental in setting the team culture, quality bar, engineering best practices, and norms. Mentoring and growing the team around you will be one of the primary ways you measure your own success. You will have the opportunity to contribute and develop deep expertise in the areas of distributed systems, machine learning, conversational technologies, user interfaces (including voice and natural user interfaces), data storage and data pipelines.
This role is exciting for engineers who love to apply startup mindset to their day-to-day, enjoy working cross-functionally to master both business and technology knowledge, and are passionate about building engineering best practices. If you are looking for opportunity to learn, grow and lead, this is the position for you.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA