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We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who will own the infrastructure, platform, and production systems that underpin our agentic autonomous campaigns. In this role, you will lead the design, build, and scaling of core services such as tool orchestration, agent execution engine, evaluation pipelines, model serving/tuning infrastructure, and monitoring systems. You will work closely with applied scientists and engineers to translate prototype agent capabilities into robust, scalable production systems. You will need to rapidly learn and apply new techniques in agent deployment, model tuning, reinforcement learning infrastructure, multi-step reasoning orchestration, and system optimization. You will build APIs, pipelines, and frameworks that allow agents to reason, plan, and act reliably at scale, ensuring low latency, high throughput, resilience, fault tolerance, versioning, and safety guardrails. A critical aspect of this role is being customer-obsessed: you will work backwards from advertiser needs to ensure that infrastructure decisions enable real customer-facing experiences. You will also partner with cross-functional teams—science, product, operations—to continuously iterate the agentic architecture, evaluation metrics, and tuning loops. This is a high-impact role where you balance deep technical craftsmanship with product sensibility, setting standards, influencing architecture, and owning end-to-end delivery of agentic capabilities.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead engineering strategy and roadmap for Sponsored Products Autonomous Campaigns
- Design and implement scalable architecture to host agent orchestration, tool invocation, state management, and feedback loops.
- Build scalable, reusable data and tool registry
- Construct evaluation pipelines (offline and online) to assess agent reasoning quality, performance metrics, safety constraints, and KPI impact.
- Integrate and manage tuning pipelines (e.g. hyperparameter tuning, RL fine-tuning, preference optimization), and provide abstraction layers for scientists to plug in models.
- Implement observability, logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, and drift detection for agent behaviors and model performance.
- Ensure resilience, fault isolation, auto-scaling, batching, caching, resource allocation, concurrency control, and SLA compliance.
- Rapidly prototype and evaluate new system designs or algorithmic patterns (e.g. streaming inference, memory caching, chaining of reasoning modules, tool embeddings).
- Collaborate in design reviews, code reviews, system design, and cross-team architecture alignment.
About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest 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.
The Autonomous Campaigns team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in auto campaign systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon’s retail ecosystem.
Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic campaign creation and management system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities—from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations—and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who will own the infrastructure, platform, and production systems that underpin our agentic autonomous campaigns. In this role, you will lead the design, build, and scaling of core services such as tool orchestration, agent execution engine, evaluation pipelines, model serving/tuning infrastructure, and monitoring systems. You will work closely with applied scientists and engineers to translate prototype agent capabilities into robust, scalable production systems. You will need to rapidly learn and apply new techniques in agent deployment, model tuning, reinforcement learning infrastructure, multi-step reasoning orchestration, and system optimization. You will build APIs, pipelines, and frameworks that allow agents to reason, plan, and act reliably at scale, ensuring low latency, high throughput, resilience, fault tolerance, versioning, and safety guardrails. A critical aspect of this role is being customer-obsessed: you will work backwards from advertiser needs to ensure that infrastructure decisions enable real customer-facing experiences. You will also partner with cross-functional teams—science, product, operations—to continuously iterate the agentic architecture, evaluation metrics, and tuning loops. This is a high-impact role where you balance deep technical craftsmanship with product sensibility, setting standards, influencing architecture, and owning end-to-end delivery of agentic capabilities.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead engineering strategy and roadmap for Sponsored Products Autonomous Campaigns
- Design and implement scalable architecture to host agent orchestration, tool invocation, state management, and feedback loops.
- Build scalable, reusable data and tool registry
- Construct evaluation pipelines (offline and online) to assess agent reasoning quality, performance metrics, safety constraints, and KPI impact.
- Integrate and manage tuning pipelines (e.g. hyperparameter tuning, RL fine-tuning, preference optimization), and provide abstraction layers for scientists to plug in models.
- Implement observability, logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, and drift detection for agent behaviors and model performance.
- Ensure resilience, fault isolation, auto-scaling, batching, caching, resource allocation, concurrency control, and SLA compliance.
- Rapidly prototype and evaluate new system designs or algorithmic patterns (e.g. streaming inference, memory caching, chaining of reasoning modules, tool embeddings).
- Collaborate in design reviews, code reviews, system design, and cross-team architecture alignment.
About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest 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.
The Autonomous Campaigns team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in auto campaign systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon’s retail ecosystem.
Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic campaign creation and management system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities—from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations—and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
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Translate your credentials into U.S. equivalents
Singapore's polytechnic diplomas and three-year bachelor's degrees don't automatically map to U.S. degree requirements. Get a credential evaluation from a NACES-recognized agency before applying so employers and DOL can confirm your development management background meets specialty occupation standards.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter development management roles by verified H-1B1 visa Labor Condition Application filings. Employers who have filed before understand the consular process and won't need internal legal approval cycles that delay or kill offers for Singaporean candidates.
Research prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must certify your salary meets DOL's prevailing wage for the development management SOC code at the job site location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the Level II or III wage for your target market before you receive an offer, so you can negotiate from an informed position.
Clarify the visa type in your offer letter
H-1B1 Singapore and H-1B visa are different classifications. Confirm your offer letter and LCA explicitly reference H-1B1 status, not H-1B. Employers unfamiliar with the distinction sometimes file under H-1B, which triggers USCIS adjudication and processing delays you don't need.
Prepare your O*NET documentation before the interview
Consular officers assess whether your development management role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Pull the O*NET profile for your SOC code and document how your responsibilities align with the typical education requirements, giving officers clear evidence your role is not generalist or administrative.
Plan your consulate appointment around LCA certification timing
DOL certifies most LCAs within seven business days, but your consulate appointment can't precede that certification. Book your appointment slot at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore only after your employer confirms LCA approval, or you risk rescheduling and losing your earliest available date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Development Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation under the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, provided the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as engineering, computer science, information systems, or business administration. Generalist management roles that accept any degree regardless of field can fail the specialty occupation test. Your employer documents the degree requirement in the Labor Condition Application, and the consular officer makes the final determination at your interview.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for a Development Manager role?
H-1B1 Singapore has no lottery, no USCIS petition, and a separate 5,400 annual cap that rarely fills. You apply at the U.S. consulate in Singapore rather than waiting for USCIS adjudication, which can cut months off your timeline. The trade-off is that H-1B1 doesn't carry dual-intent protection, so you must maintain a foreign residence and cannot file for a green card while in H-1B1 status without careful planning.
How do I find Development Manager roles where the employer already understands H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship?
Migrate Mate surfaces development management jobs filtered by verified Labor Condition Application filing history, so you can identify employers who have sponsored Singaporean professionals before. Targeting those employers avoids the internal legal review delays that come with companies encountering H-1B1 visa for the first time.
Can I switch to a different employer after arriving in the U.S. on an H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, but the new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application and you must apply for a new H-1B1 visa at the consulate. Unlike H-1B, there is no portability rule that lets you start work with a new employer while the paperwork is pending. Plan for a gap between roles or negotiate a start date that accounts for the consular processing timeline.
What happens if my Development Manager role evolves significantly after the H-1B1 is issued?
If your job duties, title, or work location changes materially, your employer must file an amended Labor Condition Application reflecting the updated position. Failing to update the LCA when duties shift substantially can create compliance exposure for the employer under DOL audit rules. Get written confirmation from your employer's legal team before accepting a significant internal promotion or role change.