Sr. Software Engineer- AI/ML, AWS Neuron Distributed Training

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Mentorship

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Distribute Training team on AWS Neuron, focusing on distributed training for Trainium and Inferentia. You will build and optimize training support for large models using PyTorch, enabling efficient scaling on AWS silicon.

You will collaborate with chip architects and runtime engineers to push performance, implement training strategies, and mentor teammates as part of a fast-moving ML software stack at AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one major language.
• 5+ years of design/architecture leadership experience.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead.
• Experience in machine learning and large-scale training with LLMs, including PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to build distributed training support into PyTorch, Neuron compiler, and runtime stacks.
• Enable distributed training strategies and optimize models for peak performance on AWS custom silicon.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including chip architects and runtime engineers.

Skills

Distributed ML

PyTorch

Mentor/Tech-Lead

LLM Training

Performance Tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Master's degree in CS (preferred)

Tools

PyTorch/Torch libraries

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Annapurna Labs designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time ago—even yesterday. Our custom chips, accelerators, and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before, and deliver results that help our customers change the world.

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Trainium (Trn1/Trn2) and Inferentia (Inf1/Inf2) our cloud-scale Machine Learning accelerators. This role is for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Distribute Training team for AWS Neuron, responsible for development, enablement and performance tuning of a wide variety of ML model families, including massive-scale Large Language Models (LLM) such as GPT-OSS, Quen and Llama, as well as Stable Diffusion, Vision Transformers (ViT) 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 Trainium instances. Experience with training these large models using Pythorch is a must. Distributed training with awareness of strategies like FSDP (Fully-Sharded Data Parallel), PP, Context parallel. Distributed training libraries like torchtitan, torchtune , HF RL , DeepSeek etc are central to this and extending all of this for the Neuron based system is key focussing on enabling large scale training. Experience is post-training strategies like DPO/PPO/HF torch-tune will additional strength and aligns with team success.

Key job responsibilities

You will lead efforts to build distributed training support into PyTorch, the Neuron compiler, and runtime stacks. You will enable distribute training strategies as well as use them to optimize models to achieve peak performance and maximize efficiency on AWS custom silicon, including Trainium servers. Strong software development skills, the ability to deep dive, work effectively within cross-functional teams, and a solid foundation in Machine Learning are critical for success in this role.

About The Team

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.

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.

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 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
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience in machine learning, large scale training with LLMs and expertise in Pytorch.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in computer architecture
• Previous software engineering expertise with Pytorch/Jax/Tensorflow, Distributed libraries and Frameworks, End-to-end Model Training.

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USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Company

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.

Job ID: A3098222