staff software engineering Staff Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Jan 27, 2026

About this role

Amazon is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, LLMs, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Department
Project/Program/Product Management--Technical
Posted
Jan 27, 2026
AI Summary
Product Manager - Technical role defining tooling roadmaps for data collection, model evaluation, and release processes in Amazon's AGI Autonomy Lab. Translate researcher needs into product requirements, bridge research and engineering, and accelerate AI agent research velocity. Requires deep LLM expertise, technical product building experience, and comfort with ambiguity.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

We’re a new research lab in San Francisco, currently focused on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling 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 our goals. In particular, we are really excited about the work in combining large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning and planning, learned world models, and generalizing agents to physical environments. Our work builds on that of Amazon’s broader AGI team, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs). We’re a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where AI agents are the next playing field; the right research bets can reinvent what’s possible with AI. We’d love for you to join our new lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities The Product Manager - Technical role for the AGI Autonomy Lab focuses on defining and prioritizing tooling roadmaps that support data collection, model evaluation, and…

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