SDE, Neuron Inference, Neuron Inference

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon AWS Neuron is seeking a senior software engineer for the Machine Learning Inference Applications team in Seattle. You will develop and optimize core building blocks of LLM inference on Neuron chips, including attention, MLP, quantization, speculative decoding, and Mixture of Experts.

Responsibilities include applying the latest research in LLM optimization to extract top performance from open source and internal models, and working across teams to deliver scalable, high-performance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of systems.
• 1+ years of SDE or related experience.
• 1+ years of designing large-scale multi-tier distributed software.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one language (C#, C++, Java, or Perl).

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize core building blocks of LLM Inference (Attention, MLP, Quantization).
• Adapt latest research in LLM optimization for Neuron chips to maximize performance.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable software for machine learning inference.

Skills

Software development

System design

OO design

C/C++/Java

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators.

This role is for a senior software engineer in the Machine Learning Inference Applications team.

This role is responsible for development and performance optimization of core building blocks of LLM Inference - Attention, MLP, Quantization, Speculative Decoding, Mixture of Experts, etc.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities of this role include adapting latest research in LLM optimization to Neuron chips to extract best performance from both open source as well as internally developed models. Working across teams and organizations is key.

About the team

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.

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, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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