SDE 2, Sagemaker AI Platforms

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.

At AWS AI we want to make it easy for our customers to train their deep learning workload in the cloud. With Amazon SageMaker AWS is building customer-facing services to empower data scientists and software engineers in their deep learning endeavors. As our customers rapidly adopt LLMs and Generative AI for their business were building the next-generation AI platform to accelerate their development. Were seeking a dedicated engineering team lead to drive building our next-generation AI compute platform thats optimized for LLMs and distributed training.

As an SDE you will be responsible for designing developing testing and deploying distributed machine learning systems and large-scale solutions for our world-wide customer this you will collaborate closely with a team of ML scientists and customers to influence our overall strategy and define the teams roadmap. Youll assist in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements and translate requirements into technical specifications for robust scalable supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. You will also drive the system architecture spearhead best practices that enable a quality product and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems a strong technical ability great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the SageMaker team you will be responsible for:
- Developing innovative solutions for supporting Large Language Model training in a cluster of nodes;
- Develop and maintain a performant resilient and fully-managed service built to train large-scale foundation models.
- Optimizing distributed training by profiling identifying bottlenecks and addressing them by improving compute and network performance as well as finding opportunities for better compute/communication overlap;
- You will serve as a key technical resource in the full development cycle from conception to delivery and maintenance.
- You will own delivery of entire piece of the system and serve as technical lead on complex projects using best practice engineering standards
- Hire/mentor junior development engineers

A day in the life
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

* Build and improve next-generation AI platform using Kubernetes as orchestration layer.
* Collaborate with internal engineering teams leading technology companies around the world and open source community - PyTorch NVIDIA/GPU
* Create innovative products to run at scale on the AI platform and see them launched in high volume production

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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