SDE, Responsible AI
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Salary range
- USD $143,700 – $194,400 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 2 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in AI Governance & Sociotechnical is $120k to $170k at an employer this size in Seattle. Key skills at this level: designs evaluations for model behavior that map to real-world harm, translates between research, policy and product framings of the same risk, and builds governance process that engineers will actually follow.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ years · an early-career or graduate seat · posts $144k to $194k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Amazon's posting.
Builds the platform that discovers and catalogs AI systems across Amazon's infrastructure and maps them against regulatory risk frameworks and internal compliance requirements. Sits on the Responsible AI team, a small senior group building AI governance tooling from scratch to give leadership real-time visibility into compliance across thousands of AI systems.
What you'd do
- Write services that find and inventory AI systems running across Amazon's infrastructure
- Create pipelines that score AI systems against regulatory frameworks and internal compliance rules
- Build self-service tools so builder teams can show they meet responsible AI standards
- Construct the hosting and scaling layer for ML compliance workflows from the Applied Science team
- Keep the systems feeding regulatory reports reliable and operationally sound
What it asks for
- Over three years of paid software development experience outside internships
- Over two years designing and architecting new and existing systems, including patterns, reliability and scale
- 1+ years developing large-scale distributed software in C#, C++, Java, or Perl
- 1+ years of object-oriented design experience
- Full software development lifecycle experience including code reviews, testing, and operations (preferred)
- Degree in computer science or a comparable field (preferred)
- Working knowledge of ML and LLM basics such as transformer design and training and inference lifecycles (preferred)
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About Amazon

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About Amazon
Marketplaces and commerce · Media and streaming · Seattle, WA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1994
Online retail marketplace, cloud provider and device maker, with millions of third-party sellers.
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