Jobs at Amazon in United States, Portland

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.As a Senior Video Compression Development Engineer, you will write great code to process our customers’ video and metadata. You’ll work on cutting edge compression technologies like VVC, AV1, HEVC, high dynamic range video, and enhancement filters. You will solve new problem for our customers by utilizing ML and Generative AI. You will work on a focused team with clear leadership and a direct ability to solve our customers’ problems and enable their success. Your work will have a broad reach. Your code will process thousands of video streams around the world, and the final output will be enjoyed by millions of viewers. The full resources of Amazon Web Services are available to us and the only limit is our imagination.Key job responsibilities
- Improving the quality per bit in our home-grown video encoders.- Design and implement improved video filters, whether this be a scaler, deinterlacer, or a brand new perceptual filter
- Improve compute performance of our video processing
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Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Work/Life BalanceMentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5+ years of video codec development experience, particularly AV1, HEVC, H.264 and MPEG2

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with SSE/AVX2/NEON is a plus
- Practical experience applying ML to solve complex problems in an applied environment
- Experience designing and implementing video filters

Key job responsibilities
You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers in adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and inspiring innovation. You will be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of your customers successful adoption of AWS.A day in the life
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Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life BalanceKey job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have a strong delivery and change management background, be detail oriented, have excellent problem-solving abilities, and be exemplary communicators both at the executive and project team level. You will be a peer leader, and have the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in. Your enterprise experience and operational excellence will influence the team’s decisions, provide insight, and help drive secure and robust solutions.You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers in adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and inspiring innovation. You will be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of your customers successful adoption of AWS.A day in the life
A day in the life

- 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams

- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

Role Highlights:
• Part-time work during the school year (16 hours/week)
• Full-time work during the summer (40 hours/week)
• 1:1 mentoring with an experienced Software Engineer
• Effective performance management and integrated opportunities for growth

• Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university Bachelor's or Master's degree program. -Majoring in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM field.
• Graduating Spring 2027 and beyond.
• Ability to work year-round until graduation (part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer).
• This role is not offered as remote or hybrid and working hours must be conducted in person at our corporate office in Portland, OR.
• Candidates must be living within commutable distance to Portland, OR and able to work in-person year-round.
• Able to start working with the cohort December 2025.
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, or C++ including object-oriented design.

• Previous technical internship(s), if applicable.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.

Note: This role requires the ability to work out of an office either in Portland, Seattle or Santa Clara/Mountain View.Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Media Specialist TAM, you will:- Complete the onboarding and off-boarding requirements of assigned key customers- Work across AWS Elemental products and with AWS Solutions Architects to define detailed customer project requirements and scope feature tickets
- Interface with customer project managers and technical owners to understand requirements and deliver product releases
- Collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize customer requirements, advocating for the customer
- Work with Engineering managers to ensure delivery of product features to meet customer requirements- Mentor junior Media Specialist TAMs and EngineersDiverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- 2+ years experience using the public cloud as a developer, architect, technical program manager or implementer
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline required, or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years technical project management, technical account management, or professional services consulting experience that includes customer-facing responsibilities
- 2+ years experience (and demonstrated credibility) working in a technical role within a software engineering-focused business
- 3+ years experience in the Media & Entertainment market segment

- Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
- Excellent communication and leadership skills including facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
- Ability to understand and communicate business and technical needs
- 4+ years’ software engineering experience
- Video processing technologies (MPEG2 / AVC/ HEVC/ MPEGTS)
- Adaptive bitrate video streaming and delivery technologies
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers in a 24x7 operational services or support environment

Up to 10% travel requiredKey job responsibilities
- Act as the primary technical point of contact representing the technical needs of high-value media workflow for key enterprise accounts
- Participate in the on-boarding and off-boarding requirements of assigned key customers
- Work across AWS Elemental products and with AWS Solutions Architects to define detailed customer project requirements and scope feature tickets
- Interface with customer project managers and technical owners to understand key technical and operations requirements
- Collaborate with Product Managers to define customer technical requirements, helping to advocate for solutions that drive long-term operational success
- Work with Engineering managers to ensure delivery of product features to meet customer technical requirements- Ability to effectively communicate with technical leads at internally and at key accounts, across, up, and down both organizations
About the team
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline required, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years experience using the public cloud as a developer, architect, systems engineer, or technical implementer
- 3+ years’ experience in systems engineering or technical operations support, with some customer-facing responsibilities
- 3+ years’ experience (and demonstrated credibility) working in a technical role within a software engineering-focused business
- 3+ years of experience in video compression, packaging and delivery mechanisms such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, RTMP, UDP, and file based workflows

• Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
• Our company credo: “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” It’s critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
• Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.With experience in the following key areas:• Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations
• Technical – Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing
• Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security
• Ability to travel 30%
• Experience (Preferred) : Working with State and Local Government (SLG), Education or Public Sector customersPreferred Experience/Skills:• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the AWS services
• Prior experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Prior experience in education, state or local government
• Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA, CJIS, etc.
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

The Cloud Automated Reasoning Group in AWS Bedrock Core Platform is looking for an Applied Scientist with experience in building scalable formal reasoning solutions that delight customers. You will be part of a world-class team building the next generation of automated reasoning tools and services.AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and move prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and own the delivery of high quality results in a fast-paced environment.As an Applied Scientist in AWS Bedrock, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of Automated Reasoning checks. You will:- Define and implement new formal reasoning features that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems using Automated Reasoning, Machine Learning, and Generative AI technologies- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff
- Deliver high-quality scientific artifactsKey job responsibilities
Work closely with product, science, and engineering to mathematically validate the accuracy of responses generated by large language models (LLMs) and prevent factual errors from hallucinations.Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
- At least 5 years of industrial/academic experience in formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and/or theorem proving
- At least 5 years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Scala, C/C++, Ruby, or Python and open-source technologies
- At least 5 years of experience in design and analysis of algorithms and data structures

- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
- Deep understanding of formal methods, formal verification, constraint solving, and knowledge representation
- Ability to address customer or business problems when a problem is ill-defined
- Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment
- Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions