Senior Machine Learning Compiler Engineer

The Product: Annapurna Labs Machine Learning accelerators are at the forefront of Amazons innovation and one of several Amazons tools used for building Generative AI on Amazon. The Inferentia chip delivers best-in-class ML inference performance at the lowest cost in cloud. Trainium will deliver the best-in-class ML training performance with the most teraflops (TFLOPS) of compute power for ML in the cloud. This is all enabled by cutting edge software stack the Amazon Neuron Software Development Kit (SDK) which includes an ML compiler runtime and natively integrates into popular ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow and MxNet. Amazon Neuron and Inferentia are used at scale with customers like Snap Autodesk Amazon Alexa Amazon Rekognition and more customers in various other segments.

The Team: As a whole the Amazon Annapurna Labs team is responsible for silicon development at Amazon. The team covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering hardware design and verification software and operations.

The Amazon Neuron team works to optimize the performance of complex neural net models on our custom-built Amazon hardware. More specifically the Amazon Neuron team is developing a deep learning compiler stack that takes neural network descriptions created in frameworks such as TensorFlow PyTorch and MXNET and converts them into code suitable for execution. As you might expect the team is comprised of some of the brightest minds in the engineering research and product communities focused on the ambitious goal of creating a toolchain that will provide a quantum leap in performance.

You: As a Sr. Machine Learning Compiler Engineer III on the Amazon Neuron team you will be a thought leader supporting the ground-up development and scaling of a compiler to handle the worlds largest ML workloads. Architecting and implementing business-critical features publish cutting-edge research and mentoring a brilliant team of experienced engineers excites and challenges you. You will leverage your technical communications skill as a hands-on partner to Amazon ML services teams and you will be involved in pre-silicon design bringing new products/features to market and many other exciting projects. A background in Machine Learning and AI accelerators is preferred but not required.

In order to be considered for this role candidates must be currently located or willing to relocate to Seattle.

About the team





- 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
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually