Senior Software Engineer – AI Applications
$161k/y-$255k/y
Bezos Academya day ago
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Summary
Bezos Academy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – AI Applications to join their team in Seattle, WA. The role involves building AI-powered software applications that serve educational content for children and families.
About the Role
As a Senior AI Applications Engineer, you will develop intelligent systems for consumers, combining digital experiences with analog activities for children. You will work throughout the software-development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to deployment and evaluation, while collaborating with product-development teams to launch AI-powered applications. Your focus will be on creating impactful AI products that expand access to early childhood education.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Eight or more years of experience developing and deploying full-stack applications, including two or more years working on AI-powered applications in production environments.
- Proficiency in Python for backend development and integrating AI capabilities.
- Working knowledge of TypeScript and SQL for full-stack development and data handling.
- Experience integrating pre-trained foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal models, into production applications.
- Familiarity with model evaluation techniques, such as prompt testing, output validation, and performance monitoring.
- Experience with AWS services relevant to AI applications.
- Understanding of AI safety practices, including inference validation and handling sensitive data responsibly.
- Ability to speak, read, and write English fluently.
Preferred:
- Experience with LangChain or similar frameworks for orchestrating LLM workflows.
- Familiarity with TensorFlow or PyTorch for running inference or adapting pre-trained models.
- Exposure to vector databases and embedding techniques.
- Experience implementing AWS Bedrock Guardrails or similar safety mechanisms.
- Understanding of LLM evaluation strategies, including prompt engineering.
- Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools.
Benefits
- Full-time, benefits-eligible, salaried position.
- Salary range of $161k–$255k per year.
- 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 9 paid days of sick time, 9 paid holidays, and 5 paid days off for winter break.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match.
- Paid parental leave and an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care.
Bezos Academy
All children deserve the great start that excellent early education provides, including in under-resourced communities. Bezos Academy aims to nurture the potential in every child to become a creative leader, original thinker, and lifelong learner by inventing the solutions needed to scale early childhood education.
Seattle, WA