ML Systems Engineer Intern – Trainium & Neuron

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03; Toronto; On-site; CAD 86,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Basic life and AD&D insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon’s Toronto Neuron team at Annapurna Labs is seeking engineering students for the ML Systems Software Development Engineer Intern role in Toronto, Ontario. You’ll be embedded on either the Frontier Model Performance or DevEx team, tackling real engineering challenges on AWS Trainium silicon and contributing to Neuron components and tooling.

The internship emphasizes hands-on work across kernel performance, benchmarking, profiling, and developer tooling, with mentorship from ML and systems

Qualifications

• Current enrolment in a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Programming experience in Python, C, and/or C++ through coursework, research, or a previous internship

Responsibilities

• Bring up and optimize state-of-the-art machine learning models for peak performance on AWS Trainium silicon
• Write and tune kernels, optimize model sharding and execution, and tackle architectural bottlenecks that influence future hardware designs
• Build benchmark and measurement infrastructure to evaluate model performance across hardware generations
• Develop reusable Neuron components and optimization techniques applicable to flagship open-source and customer workloads
• Build profiling, debugging, and analysis tools within the Neuron Explorer ecosystem to surface performance data for engineers
• Design and implement low-level performance data collection pipelines, analysis engines, and interactive visualizations
• Collaborate with ML and systems engineers to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across model and kernel execution

Skills

Python

C

C++

ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)

Strong fundamentals in CS/EE

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

XLA

TVM

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Amazon’s Toronto Neuron team at Annapurna Labs is seeking engineering students for the ML Systems Software Development Engineer Intern role in Toronto, Ontario. You’ll be embedded on either the Frontier Model Performance or DevEx team, tackling real engineering challenges on AWS Trainium silicon and contributing to Neuron components and tooling.

The internship emphasizes hands-on work across kernel performance, benchmarking, profiling, and developer tooling, with mentorship from ML and systems