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# Software Development Manager, Leo AI Foundations, Amazon Leo AI Foundations

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Redmond, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $250,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Data Integration, Network Service, Software Product Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Web Services, Large Language Models, Distributed Programming, Agentic-AI, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/98E7CF01012B4AEF954DB54058E5701C/job/

## About the Role

* 3+ years of engineering team management experience
 * 7+ years of engineering experience
 * 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
 * 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
 * 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
 * 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
 * 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
 * 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
 * Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
 * 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 delivering production systems built on large language models or ML, including evaluation, guardrails and cost management, * 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
 * Experience in networking, satellite communications or ground systems

## Description

* Build, lead and develop a team of software engineers and applied scientists, from hiring and onboarding through career growth and performance.
 * Own the team's roadmap and delivery: translate the AI Foundations charter into goals, milestones and launches, and report progress and risks to senior leadership.
 * Lead the technical design and architecture of agentic AI systems for Leo, covering agent development, data integration and the platform services that connect agents to Leo's knowledge and systems.
 * Bring deep, current knowledge of AI, including large language models, agent frameworks, retrieval and evaluation methods, and apply it to guide the team's technical choices and to raise the AI fluency of the partner teams you work with.
 * Deliver production AI systems with the evaluation, access controls and operational readiness required to act on a live network, and expand agent autonomy only as evidence shows it is safe and effective.
 * Own end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team initiatives, including infrastructure migrations and platform improvements, with domain teams who retain ownership of their services.
 * Set and uphold the engineering bar for the team: design and security reviews, testing, operational excellence and on-call health.
 * Make prioritization calls in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, balancing stability against new capabilities, and communicate trade-offs clearly.

A day in the life

No two days look the same, because you are building something that has not existed before. You will set the direction for your team and remove what stands in its way. You will sit with the engineers and scientists who own Leo's satellites, gateways, customer terminals and network services, and decide with them how your team's expertise in AI can unblock them or move them faster. You will meet the operators who keep the network healthy and turn their hardest problems into the next capability Lens delivers. You will hire and grow the people who build this, and represent your work to Leo's senior leadership.