Software Engineer, Accelerator Systems & Technologies

AECOM; New York (NY); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to enhance its AI/ML capabilities within its Accelerator Solutions & Technologies group. Candidates should have a strong background in C++, proven experience in performance optimization, and knowledge of AI/HPC systems. This role involves significant collaboration with various teams and offers competitive compensation along with bonuses and equity.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience developing in C++.
• Experience in AI/HPC system understanding.
• Knowledge of performance benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement communication features for AI/ML workloads.
• Analyze simulation results to guide firmware optimization.
• Support deployment of communication libraries.

Skills

C++

Performance optimization

Architectural analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

NCCL

PyTorch

CUDA

Job description

**Summary:**

Meta is seeking an experienced software engineer to join our Accelerator Solutions & Technologies group, supporting the development of Meta’s accelerators collective communications software library and optimizing distributed AI/ML workloads’ performance. This is an opportunity to work with a highly skilled engineering team, collaborating with a large set of cross-functional and international partners. Meta’s next-generation, super-cluster AI/ML platforms offer the opportunity to work in an extremely dynamic environment, enabling core technologies deployed in some of the world’s largest scale clusters.

**Required Skills:**

Software Engineer, Accelerator Systems & Technologies Responsibilities:

1. Understand and contribute to the collective communications library, intended to be deployed on Meta’s AI/ML superclusters.

2. Design and implement communication features for next generation AI/ML workloads.

3. Support networking and compute hardware acceleration techniques to improve ML inference and training model performance.

4. Support large-scale deployment of collective communication libraries across Meta’s infrastructure.

5. Perform architectural analysis to ensure system designs meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.

6. Analyze simulation results to guide firmware development and optimization efforts.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

7. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

8. Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or any other relevant technical field.

9. 6+ years experience in developing C++ codebase.

10. Understanding of performance, benchmarking measurements, and optimization of collective communication and distributed at-scale model training.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

11. Full-stack experience and understanding of AI/HPC systems, from HW/infrastructure through the application layer, performance optimizations, including familiarity with relevant tools, libraries, and frameworks (e.g., NCCL, PyTorch, CUDA).

12. Experience in one or more of the following machine learning domains: hardware accelerators, AI Infrastructure, and/or high performance computing (HPC), particularly pertaining to interconnect and collective.

13. Knowledge of AI/HPC hardware requirements and specifications (e.g., configuring hardware components, GPU, memory, network for AI/HPC workloads).

14. Understanding of the transport stack (e.g., RoCE), its constraints and performance measures and how transport considerations enable the collective communications stack.

**Public Compensation:**

$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

**Industry:** Internet

**Equal Opportunity:**

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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