staff software engineering Staff Engineer hybrid 5+ yrs Bachelor's · Posted Jan 22, 2026

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Amazon is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in Boston, MA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, System Design and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Location
Boston, MA
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Project/Program/Product Management--Technical
Posted
Jan 22, 2026
AI Summary
Define product vision and roadmap for an agentic developer platform, translating AI research into developer tools. Partner with research and engineering teams to productize capabilities and own developer experience end-to-end from API design to documentation. Requires 5+ years product management experience with 2+ years shipping technical products and 2+ years software engineering background.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

We're a new research lab based in San Francisco and Boston focused on developing foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We're pursuing several key research bets that will enable AI agents to perform real-world actions, learn from human feedback, self-course-correct, and infer human goals. We're particularly excited about combining large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning and planning, learned world models, and generalizing agents to physical environments. We're a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. AI agents are the next frontier—the right research bets can reinvent what's possible. Join us and help build this lab from the ground up. Key job responsibilities * Define the product vision and roadmap for our agentic developer platform, translating research into products developers love * Partner deeply with research and engineering to identify which capabilities are ready for productization and shape how they're exposed to customers * Own the developer experience end-to-end from API design and SDK ergonomics to documentation, sample apps, and onboarding flows * Understand our customers deeply by engaging directly with developers and end-users, synthesizing feedback,…

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