Lead Engineer, ML Network Stack Annapurna Labs

We are seeking an experienced engineer and technical leader to join our team that owns the network stack for EC2 distributed AI/ML systems. The team develops support for a variety of frameworks and communication libraries including NCCL NVSHMEM NIXL NCCL GIN and Perplexity kernels. Solid knowledge of Linux networking and performant coding is important. Experience with embedded systems is valued and experience with high-speed networking or HPC/RDMA interconnects is highly valued.

If you like solving hard problems want to work with HPC and ML customers iterate fast and deliver meaningful solutions at scale then come join us! This truly is a role at the forefront of AI/MLyoull be working on features for the largest clusters with the largest customers for the largest AI models. This is a role for a technical lead with the expectation to grow into a technical manager role. We are specifically seeking candidates who want to develop their career as a technical manager.

The organization you would be joining is Annapurna Labs an integral part of AWS that develops hardware and software components that are critical building blocks for EC2 infrastructure. Every instance in EC2 is running some type of hardware designed by Annapurna Labs. We specialize in designing software systems and chips that optimize the AWS customer experience.

Key job responsibilities
Be the lead engineer on a team that builds and maintains the infrastructure that monitors and reports on functionality and performance of massive testing workloads run at scale. Use internal Amazon CI/CD tools Linux and public AWS products to automate the delivery of our software to customers saving developer time. Write Python code that effortlessly spools up large clusters and runs benchmarks and applications for ML and HPC workloads. Use AWS Managed Grafana and Athena to digest the massive amount of performance data generated by these workloads and create dashboards for developers and stakeholders. Invent automatic mechanisms to alert developers to functional and performance regressions so they never reach reach customers. Manage the complexity of infrastructure that covers many instance types software stacks Linux operating systems cutting-edge releases and make it easy to evolve.

About the team
The organization you would be joining is Annapurna Labs an integral part of AWS that develops hardware and software components that are critical building blocks for EC2 infrastructure. Every instance in EC2 is running some type of hardware designed by Annapurna Labs. We specialize in designing software systems and chips that optimize the AWS customer experience.

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- 3 years as a mentor tech lead or leading engineering teams
- 3years experience in SW/HW Co-Design

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience creating automated dashboards and visualization (such as Grafana)

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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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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 - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually