ML Compiler Engineer, Neuron Kernel Interface

As an ML Compiler Engineer with the Annapurna Neuron team, you develop and scale compilers to handle the world's largest ML workloads on AWS Trainium. You design and ship features across the compiler stack, work directly with Amazon ML partner teams to unblock their workloads, and grow your skills alongside senior engineers. You want to work close to the hardware, help bring new products and features to market, and ship high-quality code. A background in Machine Learning, AI accelerators, or Kernel performance is helpful, but not required. In order to be considered for this role, candidates must be located near or willing to relocate to Seattle or Cupertino. Key job responsibilities - Design and build compiler features for the Neuron compilers. Your work may span the frontend, intermediate representations, optimization passes, and code generation for the hardware. - Own features from design through production: design, implement, test on hardware and simulation, and support customers. - Work with Amazon ML teams (PyTorch, JAX, and internal model teams) to understand their workloads and unblock them. - Give hardware teams compiler and programmability feedback on upcoming chips. - Review code and designs, and mentor newer engineers. A day in the life You start the day reviewing a teammate's code for a new compiler feature, leaving feedback before it merges. Mid-morning, you work with a model team whose kernel isn't reaching peak performance on Trainium, and you trace the bottleneck through the compiler's passes. After lunch, you write and test the feature you designed last week, then run it on hardware to confirm correctness. The team moves quickly and you are always in the details. About the team We are the compiler teams behind AWS Neuron, the software that runs machine learning models on Amazon Trainium. Our ML compiler takes a full model from PyTorch or JAX and compiles the graph to run across the chip. The Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) is a bare-metal language and compiler that lets customers program Trainium directly, down to the compute and memory, for a new operator or a faster kernel. Together we own the path from framework model to silicon. Our mission is to make Trainium fast and fully programmable. Our teams are small and agile, and there is opportunity to learn all the time. We work closely with the hardware, runtime and framework teams, and with the Amazon ML teams who use our compilers. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 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 - 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits. USA, CA, Cupertino - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually