Amazon.com Services LLC

Entertainment

SoftwareDevelopmentManager,AIStudios

$212–287k Sunnyvale, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Manager, AI Studios at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: AI, ML, Content creation, Media processing. Define team charter. Define technical vision”

Industry & Context.

Entertainment

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years engineering team management, 7+ years engineering experience, 3+ years system design/architecture, 8+ years web services development, Knowledge of engineering practices, Experience partnering with product management

Nice to Have

Experience communicating with users, Experience communicating with technical teams, Experience communicating with senior leadership, Experience recruiting and hiring engineers, Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, Experience managing software engineers

What You'll Do.

Define technical vision

Lead engineering team

Mentor engineering team

Grow engineering team

Build AI-native platform

Drive architectural decisions

Measure development progress

Measure customer experience

Measure operational excellence

Ensure adherence to SLAs

Stay current with technologies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with stakeholders; Partner with scientists; Partner with product managers; Partner with creative professionals

Communication Scope

Technical designs; Product strategy

Process & Methodology

Roadmap

Full Job Description

Join us as a Software Development Manager on the AI Studios org within Amazon Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll lead a team building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the development of our AI-native content creation platform that empowers creators to produce professional animation and live action content featuring world-class intellectual properties at unprecedented speed and scale. In this role, you'll lead a team of engineers delivering production-quality AI-powered creative suite while fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation. You'll partner closely with creative professionals (animators, filmmakers, and storytellers), guiding your team to implement features that directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for our most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for engineering leaders who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to build and grow high-performing teams while shaping industry-defining products featuring iconic IPs. Key job responsibilities -Define the team's charter and technical vision in partnership with stakeholders, scientists, product managers, and creative professionals -Own the roadmap, balancing short- and long-term decisions with clear goals to deliver on that vision -Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software development engineers building our AI-native content creation platform for professional animation and live action workflows - Drive architectural decisions across the stack — from backend services, media processing pipelines, and APIs to ML platform and creator-facing tooling - Define metrics to measure development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence, ensuring adherence to SLAs - Stay current with emerging technologies in AI/ML, media processing, and distributed computing, guiding the team in adoption About the team We're part of AI

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