director software engineering Director of Engineering management 10+ yrs Hybrid · Posted Feb 19, 2026
$297,500 – $350,000
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a director-level Director of Engineering in the software engineering function based in Seattle, WA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Computer Vision, Prompt Engineering, Cloud Computing and roughly 10+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $297,500–$350,000 per year.

Role
Director of Engineering
Function
software engineering
Level
director
Track
Management
Employment
Full-time
Location
Seattle, WA
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
10+ years
Department
Software Development
Posted
Feb 19, 2026
AI Summary
Director-level role leading a large distributed engineering team building AI-powered communication experiences for Alexa across devices. Responsible for consumer UX, communication systems, LLM optimization, and cross-functional coordination. Requires 10+ years software development leadership experience scaling organizations.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Come help us build the worlds most personal and proactive AI assistant with Alexa+. With over 600 million Alexa devices now out in the world, the latest advancements in generative AI have unlocked new possibilities—enabling us to reimagine the personal communication experience in our pursuit of making customers' lives better and easier every day. Our vision at Alexa Connections is to build the most trusted AI assistant that helps our customers gets things done and creates moments of joy. We build delightful Communication Experiences for connecting within customers household (Announcements, Drop-In's), with their community (Video Calling, Phone Number calling, Emailing, Texting, Sharing) and with AI for improved productivity (Calendar/Task extraction). We also build real time multi-modal AI primitives that help serve customers across Amazon portfolio of devices that include Alexa, FireTV, Ring etc. Generative AI is deeply embedded in our product development life cycle across all our experiences and primitives. If you’re passionate about building magical experiences for customers, while solving complex technical problems, then this role is for you. You will operate at the intersection of large language models, real time communications, voice and graphical user interfaces, and mixed reality to deliver delightful experiences for end customers. Come join…

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