Software Development Engineer, Search Thematic Advertising Experiences

Job description

Build the scalable, high-performance systems that power natural language understanding, personalization, and ML-driven advertising experiences for hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide. You'll architect the services and infrastructure behind new ads experiences that help shoppers make the most informed purchase decisions — partnering with scientists to design, build, and deploy production systems serving machine learning models at scale.

The Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team within Sponsored Products is re-imagining how customers discover products and engage with brands through generative AI. We continuously explore new contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to both shoppers and advertisers — building globally across Amazon.com and beyond. You'll translate business and scientific requirements into robust, maintainable software solutions, build APIs and data pipelines, and instrument systems to measure how shoppers and advertisers respond to changes.

This is a fast-paced, customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists focused on continuous innovation.

Key job responsibilities

- Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems that power natural language understanding, personalization, and ML-driven ad experiences

- Partner with the science team to design, build, test, and deploy production systems serving machine learning models at scale

- Build ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines that support new advertising experiences globally

- Design, build, and operate key pieces of customer-facing functionality for hundreds of millions of shoppers

- Translate business and scientific requirements into robust APIs and maintainable software solutions

- Instrument systems to measure shopper and advertiser response to changes, driving data-informed iteration

- Drive major product and engineering initiatives that help merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales through native advertising

About the team

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.