Software Engineer- AIML, AWS Neuron

Annapurna Labs designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time agoeven yesterday. Our custom chips accelerators and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before and deliver results that help our customers change the world.

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Trainium and Inferentia our cloud-scale Machine Learning accelerators. This role is for a Machine Learning Engineer in the Distribute Training team for AWS Neuron responsible for development enablement and performance tuning of a wide variety of ML model families including massive-scale Large Language Models (LLM) such as GPT and Llama as well as Stable Diffusion Vision Transformers (ViT) and many more.

The ML Distributed Training team works side by side with chip architects compiler engineers and runtime engineers to create build and tune distributed training solutions with Trainium instances. Experience with training these large models using Python is a must. FSDP (Fully-Sharded Data Parallel) Deepspeed Nemo and other distributed training libraries are central to this and extending all of this for the Neuron based system is key.

Key job responsibilities
This role will help lead the efforts building distributed training support into Pytorch and Jax using 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 customer AWS Trainium . Strong software development and ML knowledge are both critical to this role.

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- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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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