Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick

Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA2026-06-30ONSITE

About the job

We build 1P AI capabilities — Deep Research, Artifact Generation, and Image Generation — for Amazon Quick Desktop, running within a unified cloud runtime. We're transforming how knowledge workers interact with an intelligent desktop companion that's connected to their messages, calendar, files, and workflows.

Responsibilities

- Design and build the AI-powered experiences that users interact with daily.

- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of these capabilities — from prompt engineering and orchestration logic to integration with foundation models, external data sources, and the desktop runtime.

- Generate high-quality research reports from ambiguous user intent.

- Produce reliable, well-formatted artifacts (documents, presentations, visualizations) from natural language.

- Generate images that match a user's creative intent with the right style, composition, and fidelity.

Qualifications

Minimum

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of non-intternship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent