Audio Experience Software Engineer

Develop Audio Experiences for Millions
About the Role

We're looking for a leader to help us make our audio experiences even better. As part of our team, you'll have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of state-of-the-art products that will be used every day by millions of customers.
Your Key Responsibilities
• You'll design, implement, and deliver software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces of Alexa Audio.
• You'll create infrastructure to bring the power of LLMs into the Audio space while championing best practices for software engineering and operational excellence.
• You'll create tools and software to evaluate, analyze, and improve the model accuracy for various Audio experiences.
• You'll influence the operational and engineering excellence roadmap across core audio services set by the lead SDEs.
• You'll provide valuable design feedback around latency considerations and coding standards.
• You'll mentor junior members of the team and help them onboard.
About the Team

We own the audio experiences on Alexa-enabled devices. These experiences include Music, Podcast, Audio Books, Radio, and Ambient soundscapes. Our integration skill kits enable seamless integration of 1P / 3P audio content providers with Alexa devices.

Audio is one of the most widely used experiences on Alexa, and it's enjoyed by millions of customers on a daily basis. Using your voice, and timely proactive suggestions are the easiest ways to get to what you want. We support being able to control and manage playback across multiple devices, and movement of media playback across them.
Requirements
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
A Day in the Life

We collaborate across disciplines. You'll work closely with product managers, UX designers, and researchers to innovate, measure, analyze, and refine the experiences we deliver to millions of customers.