Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to be part of a new team at Amazon that is making history? Do you want to build technology and new science that millions of people will use? Are you excited about working on large scale Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)?

We in Amazon search are embarking on a multi-year journey to rethink the shopping experience on Amazon starting with a solid understanding of the customer’s shopping mission based on their search query and using that to present products that they will like, view, and purchase. We are challenging the established idea that a list of results is the best experience when customers are looking to shop for the right product and that we should be designing shopping pages rather than search pages. But all that begins with a deep and accurate understanding of the query and very high precision matches of the query to products in the catalog. And we believe that the latest advances in deep learning technology can help us realize our team’s long-term vision of making shopping effortless on Amazon.

We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer to work on improving Amazon Search using NLP, ML, and DL technology. This is a highly visible role with a huge impact on Amazon customers and business. As a part of this role, you will be working closely with scientists to develop high throughput and low latency solutions. For example, your system should complete a NLP task like Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a few milliseconds and do it for millions of queries every day. This is a unique opportunity to learn about high performance DL solutions should be built to serve the huge scale of queries that Amazon search sees world-wide.

This is a position on a new Search NLP team in Seattle, WA. We are moving fast to change the way Amazon search works. As an Sr. Software Development Engineer, you will help tackle a variety of technical challenges. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and product managers you will work on building products with NLP/ML/DL at its core. Along the way, you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
· 3+ years experience in Software development
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design
· Strong software design, coding, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Proficiency in one object oriented language (Java, C++, …)
· Proficiency in software development best practices