Software Development Manager Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

In this role you will start out leading a brand-new AWS machine learning team focused on Amazon Transcribe to build and launch Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) products as AWS offerings. We have just started breaking new ground on some of the hardest machine learning problems. We are looking for an engineering leader to join us in the fun to take Amazon Transcribe to the next level.

In the larger scope of the role, you will be responsible for leading a team of strong engineers, and continuing to develop them. You will need to hire distributed systems and machine learning engineers. You will need to constantly challenge the boundaries of speech recognition. You will draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will manage some of our most strategic technical projects, deliver large scalable systems, design new software systems at the cutting edge of machine learning technology, and have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position.

As a software development manager in AWS, you will become part of the larger technical leadership community that forms the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in the broad business planning, works closely with senior executives, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire talented team of engineers, and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative new solutions rapidly.

This position within the Amazon AI organization presents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, an ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, desire to have an industry wide impact, and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.