Sr. Tech Product Manager Neuron Runtime and Cloud ML Infrastructure, Annapurna Labs

AWS Trainium is deployed at scale with millions of chips in production and has been used for training and inference of frontier models. AWS Neuron is the software stack for Trainium enabling customers to run deep learning and generative AI workloads with optimal performance and cost efficiency.

AWS Neuron is hiring a Technical Product Manager to work backward from Trainium customers and drive the developer experience for running high-performance ML workloads at scale on AWS Trainium from getting started with Neuron Deep Learning Containers AMIs and AWS services to operating at scale through orchestration resiliency and observability.

You will drive the product strategy for how developers interact with Trainium through container ecosystems resource management platforms and AWS services. This includes Neuron integration with orchestration tools (SLURM Kubernetes) AWS services (EKS SageMaker) Neuron Deep Learning Containers and AMIs and Linux distribution support. You will also drive the strategy for resiliency and observability tools that enable system diagnostics performance monitoring health monitoring automated recovery and telemetry allowing customers to operate AI training and inference workloads with maximum uptime and efficiency as well as how Neuron Runtime System interacts with ML frameworks to ensure scale and high performance execution of models.

To be successful in this role you will partner with engineering teams and PMs responsible for training inference and performance tools Marketing Business Development and Solution Architects supporting customers and develop deep knowledge and understanding of Trainium Architecture and Neuron Runtime System (including Neuron Runtime Library Neuron Kernel Driver and Collective Communication Stack) to effectively define product strategy and make informed technical decisions.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate can balance competing customer priorities and drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders in a fast-moving early-stage product environment with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

The ideal candidate has experience with:

* Technical product management for developer-facing runtime and infrastructure products
* Developer tools (SDKs libraries APIs) with focus on developer experience
* Resource management and orchestration systems (SLURM Kubernetes schedulers)
* ML monitoring observability and resilience
* Distributed systems and high-performance computing (HPC) environments
* AWS cloud services and infrastructure


About AWS Neuron

AWS Neuron is the software stack for running deep learning and generative AI workloads on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. It includes a compiler runtime training and inference libraries and developer tools for monitoring profiling and debugging. Built on an open source foundation Neuron supports native PyTorch and JAX frameworks and popular ML libraries without code modification. Neuron enables rapid experimentation distributed training across multiple chips and nodes and cost-optimized inference powered by optimized kernels. For performance optimization Neuron provides the Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) for direct hardware access and a suite of profiling and debugging tools.


Key job responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision: Own product strategy and roadmap. Guide trade-offs between performance scalability and developer experience. Write PRFAQs and PRDs.

Customer Discovery: Understand deployment challenges orchestration needs and infrastructure pain points. Represent customer needs in executive prioritization.

Technical Leadership: Drive alignment across Neuron components (Runtime Kernel Driver Collective Communication container infrastructure) and AWS services. Partner with training inference and performance PMs. Write user stories and define success metrics.

Impact: Enable customers (Anthropic Databricks AWS teams) to deploy monitor and operate ML workloads at scale through container orchestration resource management health monitoring and observability.



About the team
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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.

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- Bachelors degree or above in computer science engineering analytics mathematics statistics IT or equivalent
- 7 years of industry experience with at least 5 years in Technical product management and 3 years of software development
- Experience with technical product management for developer-facing products
- Experience with resource management and orchestration systems (such as SLURM and Kubernetes schedulers) including monitoring observability and resilience
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

- Distributed computing and parallel processing Collective communication libraries (NCCL MPI) and communication patterns (all-reduce all-gather reduce-scatter)
- Experience with Linux systems kernel development and device drivers
- Deep learning model training and inference deployments at scale; Container orchestration (Kubernetes) computer architecture fundamentals
- Developer tools (SDKs libraries APIs) with focus on developer experience
- Track record of driving developer libraries open standards and ecosystem integration
- High-performance networking technologies (RDMA EFA)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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