Software Engineer- AI/ML, AWS Neuron Distributed Training

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking company is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join their innovative team focused on AI/ML solutions. This exciting role involves developing and optimizing complex software systems that power machine learning applications at scale. You will work closely with chip architects and engineers to enhance distributed training capabilities, utilizing cutting-edge technologies like AWS Trainium and Inferentia. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this opportunity allows you to make a significant impact in the tech landscape while working alongside talented professionals. If you are passionate about software development and machine learning, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience in a professional setting.
• Deep Learning industry experience is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts in building distributed training support into Pytorch and Tensorflow.
• Tune models for highest performance on AWS Trainium and Inferentia.

Skills

Software Development

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Python Programming

Distributed Training

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Pytorch

Tensorflow

Jax

XLA

Job description

Software Engineer- AI/ML, AWS Neuron Distributed Training

Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate?

The Annapurna Labs team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build, deliver, and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise our performance bar. You’ll design fault-tolerant systems that run at massive scale as we continue to innovate best-in-class services and applications in the AWS Cloud.

Annapurna Labs was a startup company acquired by AWS in 2015, and is now fully integrated. If AWS is an infrastructure company, then think Annapurna Labs as the infrastructure provider of AWS. Our org covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering, hardware design and verification, software, and operations. AWS Nitro, ENA, EFA, Graviton and F1 EC2 Instances, AWS Neuron, Inferentia and Trainium ML Accelerators, and in storage with scalable NVMe, are some of the products we have delivered, over the last few years.

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators and the Trn1 and Inf1 servers that use them. This role is for a senior software engineer in the Machine Learning Applications (ML Apps) team for AWS Neuron. This role is responsible for development, enablement and performance tuning of a wide variety of ML model families, including massive scale large language models like GPT2, GPT3 and beyond, as well as stable diffusion, Vision Transformers and many more.

The ML Distributed Training team works side by side with chip architects, compiler engineers and runtime engineers to create, build and tune distributed training solutions with Trn1. Experience training these large models using Python is a must. FSDP, Deepspeed and other distributed training libraries are central to this and extending all of this for the Neuron based system is key.

Key job responsibilities
This role will help lead the efforts building distributed training support into Pytorch, Tensorflow using XLA and the Neuron compiler and runtime stacks. This role will help tune these models to ensure highest performance and maximize the efficiency of them running on the customer AWS Trainium and Inferentia silicon and the TRn1, Inf1 servers. Strong software development and ML knowledge are both critical to this role.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Deep Learning industry experience

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
- Preferred previous software engineer expertise with Pytorch/Jax/Tensorflow, Distributed libraries and Frameworks, End-to-end Model Training. The group presents a lot of opportunity for optimization and scaling large deep learning models on Trainium architecture.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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