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

Amazon; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to join the Inference Model Enablement team in Cupertino, CA. You will onboard and optimize LLMs for inference on Trainium accelerators, and drive speed and usability improvements across the stack.

You will mentor engineers across multiple work streams and influence architectural decisions shaping the Neuron serving stack while collaborating with customers and product teams to set technical strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of programming in Java, C++, or C# with object‑oriented design.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
• 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 across the Neuron serving stack.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership across multiple work streams.
• Collaborate with customers, product owners, and engineering teams to define technical strategy.
• Author technical documentation, design proposals, and architectural guidelines.
• Lead design reviews and architectural discussions.

Skills

Programming (Java/C++)/C#

System design/architecture

SDLC experience

Mentorship/tech lead

Non-internship experience

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

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.

As a Sr. 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

You'll lead critical technical initiatives while mentoring team members. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams of applied scientists, system engineers, and product managers to architect and deliver state-of-the-art inference capabilities. Your day might involve:

• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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