Software Development Engineer, AI Assistant Team
Company: Amadeus
Location: New York
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-25
About this role
Job Title
Software Development Engineer, AI Assistant Team
About the Department/Team:
We build the production systems that connect AI Assistants to Amadeus’ travel capabilities. By joining our AI Assistant team, you’ll be part of an end-to-end product incubation team focused on designing, validating, and scaling AI-native solutions for how travelers plan, book, and service trips through emerging AI interfaces.
About the AI Delivery Hub:
The AI Delivery Hub is a key engine in Amadeus’ transformation toward an AI-first organization. It brings together focused, multidisciplinary teams to design, build, and deliver AI product solutions end-to-end. Working closely with product and platform teams across different business lines, the Hub accelerates delivery and scales AI across Amadeus’ portfolio by turning proven work into reusable capabilities and real product outcomes.
Role summary:
As a Software Engineer in the AI Assistant team, you build and operate the services, APIs, and integration layers that enable AI Assistants to deliver end-to-end travel experiences.
You work in a spec-driven, AI-augmented engineering workflow: you write clear specifications, work alongside AI coding agents to generate implementations, and apply rigorous review and testing to ship systems that are production-ready, secure, and performant.
You collaborate closely with architects on system design and technical direction, and with product and design on experience requirements. You deliver quickly through a disciplined, traceable workflow.
In this role you'll:
- Engineers in this team make AI coding tools a primary working method, not a side instrument. The day-to-day looks different from traditional software engineering in three ways:
- Writing specifications is a core engineering skill. The clarity of what you ask for is what determines the quality of the result, whether the implementation is written by you, by a teammate, or by an AI coding agent.
- Reviewin...