Senior ML Compute Platform Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, vis

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs and sign-on

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA, seeks a seasoned software leader to drive the design and scaling of EC2 ML compute platforms.

You will work across hardware, firmware, and software teams to advance Ultraserver technologies using C, C++ or Rust in Linux environments and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes leading architecture, building regression testing, and shaping ML workloads for diverse applications, including LLMs and multimodal systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative technologies that power the infrastructure supporting machine learning workloads on Ultraservers
• Lead technical projects establishing EC2 as the pioneer in cloud computing for ML workloads across diverse applications including LLMs, multimodal systems, and emerging model architectures
• Develop and maintain comprehensive regression testing systems that validate performance across major component releases including frameworks, firmware, drivers, and networking infrastructure
• Collaborate with hardware engineering teams to influence future platform designs based on performance insights gathered from state-of-the-art research and customer workloads
• Build customer relationships by investigating complex performance challenges, developing solutions, and publishing actionable best practices through multiple channels

Skills

Software development

Programming languages (C/C++/Rust)

Leadership / architecture

Mentorship / Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA, seeks a seasoned software leader to drive the design and scaling of EC2 ML compute platforms.

You will work across hardware, firmware, and software teams to advance Ultraserver technologies using C, C++ or Rust in Linux environments and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes leading architecture, building regression testing, and shaping ML workloads for diverse applications, including LLMs and multimodal systems.