Software Development Manager, Foundations Software

In this role you will be responsible for building and supporting a team which is critical in providing compute sanitization to the Neuron ML accelerators fleet. You will work closely with the hardware and software teams to ensure the right tools are available for identifying defects or faulty states of the hardware before the customer hits an issue. Neuron Compute Sanitizer Tools develops and maintains a pre-check and functional correctness checking suite and provides visibility at the fleet level to understand the trends of hardware/software sanitization.

Key job responsibilities
* Build and develop a strong team of engineers that would deliver the pre-check suite.
* Work closely with the hardware and firmware design teams.
* Collect requirements from various other teams including training inference and runtime.
* Collaborate with the runtime team to ensure timely release of the pre-check tools.
* Anticipate future needs based on the product roadmap and develop necessary tools to sanitize compute.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were 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.

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Work/Life Balance
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About Amazon Annapurna Labs:
Amazon Annapurna Labs team (our organization within AWS UC) is responsible for building innovation in silicon and software for our AWS customers. We are at the forefront of innovation by combining cloud scale with the worlds most talented engineers. Our team covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering hardware design software and operations. Because of our teams breadth of talent we have been able to improve AWS cloud infrastructure in high-performance machine learning with AWS Neuron Inferentia and Trainium ML chips in networking and security with products such as AWS Nitro Enhanced Network Adapter (ENA) and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and in computing with AWS Graviton and F1 EC2 instances.

About AWS Utility Computing (UC):
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides 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 Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Additionally this role may involve exposure to and experience with Amazons growing suite of generative AI services and other cloud computing offerings across the AWS portfolio.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

About AWS Neuron:
AWS Neuron is the software of Trainium and Inferentia the AWS Machine Learning chips. Inferentia delivers best-in-class ML inference performance at the lowest cost in the cloud to our AWS customers. Trainium is designed to deliver the best-in-class ML training performance at the lowest training cost in the cloud and its all being enabled by AWS Neuron. Neuron is a Software that include ML compiler and native integration into popular ML frameworks. Our products are being used at scale with external customers like Anthropic and Databricks as well as internal customers like Alexa Amazon Bedrocks Amazon Robotics Amazon Ads Amazon Rekognition and many more.

- 8 years of engineering experience
- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of planning designing developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment

- Experience designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications
- Experience with ML hardware/Software

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