Sr. Software Development Engineer - Computer Vision AI

About the Role

In this role, you will build a new AWS service that is going to be trend-setting in the machine learning and AI field, solving the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning powered solutions for customers. As a tier zero Amazon service, solutions must be scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant. You will deliver strategic technical projects, build large scalable systems, design new software systems at the cutting edge of distributed database technology, and have a significant bottom-line impact on business. You will also mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues. This position within the AWS AI team offers a unique opportunity to shape the technology, product, and business within a fast-growing environment. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, a desire for industry-wide impact, and the ability to work in a fast-moving, startup environment within a large company to rapidly deliver broadly impactful services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with a passion for tackling tough problems by bringing cutting-edge deep learning technologies to customer-facing computer vision products at Amazon Web Services (AWS)! As a Software Development Engineer - Computer Vision AI on the Amazon Rekognition Team, you will design and develop fast, efficient, and highly scalable deep learning algorithms applied to challenging deep learning-based image and video recognition problems. You'll work with applied scientists and engineers within Amazon AI and develop high-quality software that is robust and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Drive software engineering best practice while designing the world's foremost distributed and scalable systems.
• Develop and deploy cloud software framework for computer vision processing.
• Design and develop innovative REST APIs and SDKs to deliver computer vision and machine learning capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of Java and Python software.
• Be responsible for the architecture of software solutions, determining current limitations and compatibility between subsystems, the selection of new concepts and methodology, and the development of major routines and utilities.
• Create new feature and performance improvements.
• Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedules.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 3+ years of software engineering with full development life cycle.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years of applying object oriented design principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.