Manager, Software Development (Hands-On Technical), ML Network Stack Annapurna Labs

We are hiring a hands-on Software Development Manager for the team that owns the network stack for EC2 distributed AI/ML systems. The team develops support for a variety of frameworks and communication libraries including NCCL NVSHMEM NIXL NCCL GIN Perplexity kernels and others.

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager for a mid-sized team with multiple years of hands-on experience in systems programming HW/SW co-design and familiarity with networking (HPC networking preferred).

Experience with the NVIDIA stack ML applications and frameworks will be highly regarded. Youll be leading senior mid-level and junior SDEs and directing work to ensure the team delivers functions and features required for the latest and largest ML workloads.

About the team
The organization you would be joining is Annapurna Labs an integral part of AWS that develops hardware and software components that are critical building blocks for EC2 infrastructure. Every instance in EC2 is running some type of hardware designed by Annapurna Labs. We specialize in designing software systems and chips that optimize the AWS customer experience.

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- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- 3 years of C or C or Rust development experience
- 5 years of hands-on engineering experience maintaining active programming proficiency

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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