Software Development Manager, FAI-Asset Creation Tech

Want to help build the next generation of search and intelligent assistant products? Join us! We are looking for a talented Software Development manager to help us develop build the software and systems to achieve our vision to "Be best-in-class at acquiring, creating and ground-truthing all kinds of data, with the highest standards of privacy and security, to power the best AI models and applications on Earth.” What will you do? You will lead a multidisciplinary team to develop solutions across multiple programs working with scientist customers collect, clean, and evaluate data used for AI model training. You will lead the development process and have end-to-end ownership of distributed backend systems as well as front-end tools for human-in-the loop data collection.
We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can develop engineers, bring clarity to ambiguous problems, and balance delivery speed with long-term system health. You will have end-to-end accountability for your team’s software and its customer outcomes, including architecture, execution and production operations.

Key job responsibilities
* Hire and develop the best. You will help grow and develop a team of engineers, growing their careers and empowering them to achieve amazing things.
* Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team identify technical and product requirements and opportunities. Use project management and prioritization skills to balance long and short-term goals and deliver on your product roadmap.
* Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.
* Drive continual improvements: Set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A day in the life
A mix of helping the team design systems for building and managing training data, working with the team to deep dive into data quality issues, working with stakeholders to understand their requirements, improving efficiency in our software development processes, career coaching and mentorship, communicating status updates to leadership about progress and challenges, and collaborating with sister teams.

About the team
FAI-Asset Creation Tech is part of the Frontier AI Assets (FAI) organization. We amplify human judgment to improve the quality of AI, making it useful for all. Through evaluation, data generation and training, we align AI systems with customer objectives in a reliable and responsible way. Our teams prioritize human insight as the essence of AI that benefits Amazon businesses, customers, and humanity

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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