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Director of Software Development India, Alexa Ambient Computing Technologies

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We are seeking a Director of Software Development to lead our India-based Alexa Ambient Computing Technologies (AACT) teams in Bangalore and Chennai. This role involves defining technical strategy, driving operational excellence, and championing the responsible adoption of generative AI and agentic systems to enhance AI assistant capabilities at scale.

Ansvarsområden

  • Define and drive technical strategy for critical initiatives like expanding Alexa into new modalities, enabling multi-turn conversations, and evolving inference and orchestration infrastructure.
  • Set the India sites' strategy and lead software engineering teams as part of the AACT Senior Leadership team.
  • Own Operational Excellence (OE) for AACT India-based charters, ensuring availability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
  • Champion the responsible adoption of generative AI and agentic tooling across the organization, both in products and development practices.
  • Build talent, mechanisms, and culture for a large AI-first engineering organization to move quickly and safely.

Krav

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 8+ years of demonstrated experience managing senior engineering managers.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
  • Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects, driving strategic technical decisions.
  • Understanding of software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.

Önskade kvalifikationer

  • Master's degree in computer science or related field.
  • Demonstrated experience leading product and development teams, with a focus on customer service or user-facing technologies.
  • Experience in a lead role in bringing a product to market.
  • Proven track record of taking emerging technologies from research to production-ready solutions.
  • Familiarity with generative AI models and their application in customer interactions and process automation.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • AI fluency and technical judgment: working understanding of modern generative AI (LLMs, foundation models, prompting, fine-tuning/RAG, agents, evaluation, inference optimization).
  • AI strategy and prioritization: ability to identify AI opportunities and translate them into a prioritized roadmap tied to customer and business outcomes.
  • Driving AI-assisted engineering productivity: adopting AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations.
  • Understanding of cost, latency, and scale economics of AI.
  • Talent and culture for an AI-first org: attracting, developing, and retaining leaders and builders for an AI-native environment.
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Bengaluru, India

Chennai, India

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