Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML, AWS Neuron Inference

Amazon.com Services LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC's AWS Neuron team is seeking a senior software engineer to advance the ML inference stack on Inferentia and Trainium chips. This role focuses on optimizing core building blocks like Attention, MLP, Quantization, and Mixture of Experts, working with chip architects, compiler, and runtime engineers to deliver high performance and accuracy.

The team emphasizes mentorship and knowledge sharing.

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.
• 5+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Adapt 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.

Skills

5+ years software dev

Design/Architecture lead

Mentor / tech lead

Multi-language programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Git

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.

The team works side by side with chip architects, compiler engineers and runtime engineers to deliver performance and accuracy on Neuron devices across a range of models.

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

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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 - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually