Software Engineer AIML, AWS Neuron Distributed Training Team

Annapurna Labs was a startup company acquired by AWS in 2015 and is now fully integrated. If AWS is an infrastructure company then think Annapurna Labs as the infrastructure provider of AWS. Our org covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering hardware design and verification software and operations. AWS Nitro ENA EFA Graviton and F1 EC2 Instances AWS Neuron Inferentia and Trainium ML Accelerators and in storage with scalable NVMe are some of the products we have delivered over the last few years

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators and the Trn1 and Inf1 servers that use them. This role is for a software engineer in the Machine Learning Applications (ML Apps) team for AWS Neuron. This role is responsible for development enablement and performance tuning of a wide variety of ML model families including massive scale large language models like GPT2 GPT3 and beyond as well as stable diffusion Vision Transformers and many more.

In this role youll be responsible for developing integrations with The Neuron SDK and frameworks such as TensorFlow PyTorch and MXNet. Youll be planning and implementing new features working with customers to create innovative solutions and actively contributing to open source projects.

About the team

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Basic qualifications:

B.S. Computer Science or related technical field
Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C C Java or Perl
Experience with deep learning frameworks: TensorFlow PyTorch and MXNet
Preferred qualifications
Masters or PhD in Computer Science Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Applied Math or related field
Experience with distributed training for Deep learning and High Performance Computing
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role


- 1 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Cupertino - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually