# Software Development Engineer, Amazon Optics

Come build intelligent systems that secure the foundation of our customer's physical locations using computer vision and applied machine learning to automate real-time production decisions that protect every AWS location globally. The Amazon Optics team builds and manages services used by AWS employees to secure our physical sites. Our services allow customers to protect AWS locations and preserve the trust that all AWS users have in us. You will work with other software development engineers and Applied Scientists every day to build, deploy, and optimize machine learning models that automate real-time security decisions at scale. The models you build and operate will run across every AWS region, making automated determinations that directly impact the physical security posture of every AWS customer. You will partner directly with Applied Scientists to translate research into production-grade inference pipelines. You will own the full lifecycle of ML model deployment: from training infrastructure through real-time serving, monitoring, and iteration. You will build the systems that take a model from notebook to production, ensuring low-latency inference at scale with high reliabilit

- **Id**: 4050497
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-development-engineer-amazon-optics-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States, New York, United States, Herndon, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7308
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4570
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 143700
- **Max**: 194400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 194400

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:14:15Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 194400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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