Principal Software Engineer, Alexa AI (AURORA)

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Not verified

Mental health support

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Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

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Learning budget

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401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Principal From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

Shift type

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

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Application

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Deadline

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About this role

Principal Software Engineer, Alexa AI (AURORA) Bengaluru, Karnataka, IND Interested in building Amazon Alexa, Machine Learning, and Generative Artificial Intelligence? We're building products and services that power state of the art for Amazon customers. Come join us! The Alexa AI org is looking for a Principal Engineer to join Aurora (Alexa Understanding, Runtime, ORchestration, and Applied Sciences) - Alexa's AI runtime backbone and horizontal intelligence organization. Aurora is a science and engineering organization that advances research while delivering robust, scalable runtime solutions. We revolutionize conversational AI through three core pillars: architecting mission-critical AI runtime systems, advancing science solutions that connect key conversational capabilities, and transforming how builders create at scale. This role sits at the intersection of latest AI research and large-scale production systems, where you will architect and deliver Pragmatic AI capabilities - AI that is not just technically impressive, but reliably useful, trustworthy, and accessible to real customers in their everyday lives. What makes this role unique You will be building AI experiences that work across the full spectrum of human interaction - multi-modal (speech, text, image, video), multi-lingual (global locales with distinct linguistic and cultural requirements), and multi-model (orchestrating and routing across frontier and specialized AI models to optimize for accuracy, latency, and cost). Your systems will serve customers across a diverse range of endpoints and form factors, from voice-first devices to screen-based and mobile experiences. AURORA influences the full Alexa+ agent execution path - from reasoning to evaluation to runtime - enabling you to operate in

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