Member of Technical Staff - Principal Product Designer, AGI Autonomy

Senior • On-site

$180,000 - $243,933/yr

San Francisco, CA

DESCRIPTION

We’re a new research lab in San Francisco, currently focused on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI agents. We’re pursuing several key research bets that will enable AI agents to perform real-world actions, learn from human feedback, self-course-correct, and infer our goals. In particular, we are really excited about the work in combining large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning and planning, learned world models, and generalizing agents to physical environments. Our work builds on that of Amazon’s broader AGI team, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs).

We’re a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where AI agents are the next playing field; the right research bets can reinvent what’s possible with AI. We’d love for you to join our new lab and build it from the ground up!

Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll work closely with our research and engineer teams to build our agentic platform. As a UX and technical leader, you blend design leadership with engineering expertise to solve ambiguous user interfaces, design tools, and UX solutions that streamline workflows and inspire creativity across the AGI ecosystem. You will actively lead and participate in UX and technical reviews, guide software developers in implementing designs effectively, and demonstrating the business value of our innovative ideas – all with the ultimate goal of delighting our vast customer base. You have been a significant contributor to the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large products or applications. As a key influencer, you bring business and industry context to UX and technology decisions. You set the standard for design technology excellence and align teams toward exceptional CXs and coherent technical strategies. This unique opportunity allows you to:

-Drive the future of LLMs multimodal experiences
- Iterate rapidly with engineers and users to discover the new UI patterns for building and using agents
-Collaborate with cross-organizational teams to influence product strategy
-Create rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts for big challenges that shape AGI's evolution
-Mentor and lead workshops to evangelize design technology best practices
-Contribute to industry-leading developer tools and experiences

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree
Experience owning/driving UX strategy and definition

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

-Demonstrated experience building beloved products for developers
-Deep knowledge of developer workflows
-Love for ambiguity and creating something new from scratch
-Ability to clearly articulate design vision and requirements in written documents
-Interest in AI agents—bonus if you’ve worked in the space (either formally or through side projects)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $180,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $243,933/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon

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