Senior Software Development Engineer AWS Neuron Inference

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloudscale machine
learning accelerators and the Trn1 and Inf2 servers that use them. This role is for a software engineer in the Neuron Inference (ML Apps) team for AWS Neuron.

This role is responsible for development enablement and performance optimization (latency throughput) of a wide variety of ML model families including massive scale large language models like Llama3 DBRX and beyond as well as Stable Diffusion Vision Transformers and many more.

The Neuron Inference team works side by side with compiler engineers and runtime engineers to create build and tune distributed inference solutions with Trn1/Inf2. Experience optimizing inference performance for both latency and throughput on these large models using PyTorch or JAX is a must. Experience with technologies/tools such as vLLM Hugging Face multimodal inference etc. is highly valued.

*Utility Computing (UC)*
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.


Key job responsibilities
This role will help lead the efforts building distributed inference 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 AWS Trainium and Inferentia silicon. Strong software development using C/Python and ML knowledge are both critical to this role.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:

Build highimpact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work crossfunctionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startuplike development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
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5 years of noninternship 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

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.