Software Development Engineer II, Frontier AI - Data Tranformation
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
Are you passionate about building the data foundations that power next-generation AI experiences? We're looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our team within the Frontier AI Organization, where you'll play a critical role in designing and scaling data preparation pipelines that fuel next gen model development. In this role, you will:
- Architect and build robust, scalable data processing systems that ingest, transform, and enrich large-scale datasets across multiple languages
- Drive data quality by developing automated validation frameworks, quality tracking tools, and drift-detection mechanisms to ensure the highest standards of data integrity
- Optimize end-to-end pipelines, from ingestion through segmentation, enrichment, and delivery, to accelerate model training timelines
- Collaborate cross-functionally with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to define data requirements and deliver production-ready datasets that meet evolving model needs
- Innovate at scale by leveraging cloud-native technologies to process petabyte-scale corpora efficiently and cost-effectively
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually