SDE II, Neuron Infra Services

Amazon; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Neuron Infra Services team is seeking a Software Engineer to lead the development of tools, pipelines, and automation for optimizing machine learning workloads on Inferentia/Trainium accelerators. You will drive architecture, delivery, and customer-facing improvements across EC2/EKS/Lambda-like services within AWS or comparable platforms.

You will work with developers, hardware engineers, and users to ensure compatibility with next generation AI accelerators, while building scalable

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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles.
• Experience in debugging, profiling

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of new tools, pipelines and automation, collaborating with developers, system architects, hardware engineers and users to ensure compatibility with existing and next-gen AI accelerators.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software release process.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate new software releases.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage and automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Ensure high availability and scalability of systems through effective infrastructure management.
• Monitoring and Optimization: Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices in the DevOps pipeline and conduct vulnerability assessments.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems design

Performance analysis

Debugging & profiling

Programming languages

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & instrumentation

Job description

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators and the trn* and inf* servers that use them. This position is for a Software Engineer that will lead the development of various services that will aid in optimization, analysis and release of machine learning workloads and artifacts. This candidate must have had experience leading distributed systems and machine learning related projects, preferably starting from architecture through several generations of delivery to customers. Deep knowledge of optimization, resource management, scheduling are needed. The ideal candidate will have experience working on services like EC2, EKS, Lambda in AWS or similar services on other cloud providers.

Key job responsibilities

• This engineer will lead the design and implementation of new tools, pipelines and automation, will work with developers, system architects, hardware engineers and users both within and external to Amazon to ensure compatibility of this new toolset with existing and next-generation AI accelerators.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software release process.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate new software releases.
• Infrastructure Management:
• Manage and automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Ensure high availability and scalability of systems through effective infrastructure management.
• Monitoring and Optimization:
• Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance. Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance.
• Security and Compliance:
• Implement security best practices in the DevOps pipeline. Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and risk management.

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:

• Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
• Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
• Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

About the team

The Neuron Infra Services team fosters a builder’s culture where experimentation is encouraged, and impact is measurable. We emphasize collaboration, technical ownership, and continuous learning. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Required 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
• Experience in debugging, profiling