Sr. Software Development Engineer AI/ML, Inference Model Enablement, AWS Neuron

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 193,300 - 261,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Comprehensive benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to onboard and optimize open-source and customer LLMs for inference on Trainium accelerators.

You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive performance improvements across the Neuron stack. The role emphasizes collaboration with customers and internal teams to define strategy, while contributing to system reliability, documentation, and architectural guidelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of programming in a modern language (Java, C++, or C#) with OO design experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new/existing systems.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience including coding standards, reviews, and operations.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-performance models using distributed inference libraries.
• Drive architectural decisions impacting the Neuron serving stack.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership across multiple work streams.
• Drive architectural decisions that impact the entire Neuron serving stack.
• Collaborate with customers, product owners, and engineering teams to define technical strategy.
• Author technical documentation, design proposals, and architectural guidelines.

Skills

Programming (Java/C/C#)

Design/architecture leadership

SDLC experience

Professional software development

Mentor / tech lead

Education

Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Description

We develop AWS Neuron, the complete software stack for Trainium, Amazon's custom cloud-scale machine learning accelerators. Join us to optimize the latest models to run really fast on the Trainium hardware.

Description

We develop AWS Neuron, the complete software stack for Trainium, Amazon's custom cloud-scale machine learning accelerators. Join us to optimize the latest models to run really fast on the Trainium hardware. As a Software Development Engineer on the Inference Model Enablement team, you will onboard and optimize state-of-the‑art open-source and customer LLMs, both dense and MoE, for inference on Trainium accelerators. You will also drive improvements in model enablement speed and experience, while advancing inference usability and quality through inference features, infrastructure optimization, tools, and automation.

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver high-performance models using distributed inference libraries
• Drive technical excellence in performance optimization and system reliability across the Neuron ecosystem
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership across multiple work streams
• Drive architectural decisions that impact the entire Neuron serving stack
• Collaborate with customers, product owners, and engineering teams to define technical strategy
• Author technical documentation, design proposals, and architectural guidelines

A day in the life

• Leading design reviews and architectural discussions
• Debugging complex performance issues across the stack in collaboration with the compiler and runtime teams
• Mentoring junior engineers on system design and model optimization across model enablement teams
• Driving technical decisions that shape the future of Neuron's inference stack

About The Team

The inference model enablement team releases its models in the vLLM Neuron plugin: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-neuron

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution

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USA, CA, Cupertino - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually

Company

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.

Job ID: A10487278