Systems Development Engineer (AWS Generative AI & ML Servers), AWS HW Engineering

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a highly capable systems engineer to help build the backbone of Generative AI cloud at AWS.

You will design, debug, and operate AI/ML and HPC cloud platforms, impacting AI-powered innovation at scale. You will own architectural challenges from bare-metal hardware up to userland software, apply automation, and lead cross-team efforts to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience solving complex system issues across hardware and software.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
• Interest in cloud scale and AI/ML hardware acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation of your work and deliver product improvements.
• Lead teams in solving architectural problems and proactive issue identification.
• Develop tactical code to diagnose and fix issues before impacting customers.

Skills

Systems debugging

Leadership

Architectural problems

Automation

Job description

Do you want to build the backbone of Generative AI cloud at AWS? Do you want to build the future of the cloud for AI training and inference? Want to do industry leading work delivering continuous price performance improvements in the cloud for AI model training for multi billion variable LLMs? Come Join us in designing, delivering and operating AWS cloud offerings that enable high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads.

You are intrigued by the continuous release of newer AWS services and instance types that solve newer, bigger and more interesting business problems every day? Does that make you wish your talents were applied to those at cloud scale? If yes, then come join us - we are looking for builders like you.

The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazon's innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and millions of customers who use AWS today. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies. What makes this role unique is your direct impact on AI-powered innovation - you'll be building intelligent systems that drive the debug and development of next-generation cloud technologies.

The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from baremetal server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user. You insist on highest-standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong organizational, planning, and communication skills. You are a builder!

What you will do?

You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS. You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.

AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology - come help us make history!

Why it matters?

Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the overall IT services market and will continue to do so for several years to come. The scale of AWS, combined with an understanding of how our software and hardware is used, creates a unique opportunity for component customizations that will directly benefit our customers.

Why you will love it?

You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.

You'll work at the fascinating intersection of AI driven automation and cloud platform development, implementing automation solutions that directly enhance the productivity of our engineers. Unlike typical roles, you'll have the opportunity to influence both AI implementation and core architecture while collaborating with cloud technology experts.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

Key job responsibilities

You will be a technical leader solving complex architectural problems which may not defined before hand. You will be owning the teams systems and work proactively in identifying deficiencies, writing tactical code to solve issues before they impact customers, and working with your team to s