Sr SDE, AGI Inference

The Sensory Inference team at AGI is a group of innovative developers working on ground-breaking multi-modal inference solutions that revolutionize how AI systems perceive and interact with the world. We push the limits of inference performance to provide the best possible experience for our users across a wide range of applications and devices. We are looking for talented passionate and dedicated Inference Engineers to join our team and build innovative mission-critical high-volume production systems that will shape the future of AI. You will have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design architecture and implementation of novel technologies used every day potentially by people you know. This role offers the exciting chance to work in a highly technical domain at the boundary between fundamental AI research and production engineering such as Quantization Speculative Decoding and Long Context for inference efficiency.

Key job responsibilities
Develop high-performance inference software for a diverse set of neural models typically in C/C
Design prototype and evaluate new inference engines and optimization techniques
Participate in deep-dive analysis and profiling of production code
Optimize inference performance across various platforms (on-device cloud-based CPU GPU proprietary ASICs)
Collaborate closely with research scientists to bring next-generation neural models to life
Partner with internal and external hardware teams to maximize platform utilization
Work in an Agile environment to deliver high-quality software against tight schedules
Hold a high bar for technical excellence within the team and across the organization

- 5 years of non-internship 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
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related fields
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language or experience in embedded development in C/C
- Masters degree or a PhD and experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience with portable device hardware architectures
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization
- Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
- Experience with inference frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow ONNXRuntime TensorRT etc.
- Proficiency in performance optimization for CPU GPU or AI hardware
- Proficiency in kernel programming for accelerated hardware using programming models such as (but not limited to) CUDA OpenMP OpenCL Vulkan and Metal
- Experience with latency-sensitive optimizations and real-time inference
- Knowledge of model compression techniques (quantization pruning distillation etc.)
- Experience with LLM efficiency techniques like speculative decoding and long context

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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.