Software Development Engineer, Alexa + AI & Devices, Alexa+ Devices & AI Developer Tech

Alexa+ Developer Role

Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. She can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online. At the core of Alexa+'s enhanced capabilities is a powerful large language model (LLM) architecture. Alexa+ is able to orchestrate across tens of thousands of services and devices - a first-of-its-kind achievement. This is enabled by "experts" - groups of systems, capabilities, APIs, and instructions that allow Alexa+ to accomplish specific customer tasks.

Through these experts, Alexa+ can seamlessly control smart home devices, make reservations, explore entertainment content, order groceries and meals, set reminders, and much more. The Alexa Expert Build Platform team's charter is to enable internal and external partners to build exceptional Alexa+ experiences by managing the lifecycle of these experts.

Key Job Responsibilities

Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including Large Language Models

Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.

Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.

Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.

When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path, building consensus.

You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

A Day in the Life

A typical day will start with a morning huddle to catch up on what you and your team worked on the previous day. This is usually followed by some white-board design discussions on the problems the team is working on, with afternoon mostly spent on project design and implementation work with a heavy dose of code reviews from and for your team along the way. We are a fun, close knit team where everyone is ready to roll their sleeves and help each other out, push boundaries and have fun doing it!

About the Team

Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower Alexa skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural, accurate, conversational, and personalized. Skills are like apps for Alexa and provide a new channel for your content and services. Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks like checking the news, listening to music, playing a game, and more. Organizations and individuals can publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.