We're seeking a Software Development Manager to lead our Frameworks team within AWS Neuron, the software stack powering AWS Inferentia and Trainium machine learning accelerators. This role combines technical leadership, team management, and strategic open-source collaboration to shape the future of machine learning acceleration at AWS.
As the Software Development Manager, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team of software engineers while driving the development and maintenance of critical Neuron framework components. You'll drive cross-functional collaboration with compiler, runtime, and kernel development teams to ensure seamless integration of Neuron with major machine learning frameworks. You will also contribute technically by reviewing designs and implementing features.
A crucial aspect of your role will be building and nurturing strategic relationships with open-source communities, particularly with JAX, OpenXLA, and PyTorch/XLA. You'll work closely with these communities to align framework development roadmaps with Neuron's strategic objectives, ensuring our customers have access to the latest ML framework innovations.
In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping how developers interact with AWS's machine learning accelerators, ensuring our customers can easily adopt and benefit from the latest advancements in ML frameworks. The position offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud computing, machine learning, and open-source software, while leading a team that directly influences the future of ML acceleration at AWS.
The ideal candidate will bring proven experience managing software development teams and a strong background in machine learning frameworks and acceleration software. You should have a demonstrable track record of successful open-source collaboration and contributions, along with experience working with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX. Excellence in cross-functional team leadership and communication is essential.
Key job responsibilities
* Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
* Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
* Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team
* Management of resources, staffing, mentoring, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
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 - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually
