Amazon

Software Engineer- AI/ML, AWS Neuron

Amazon$165K — $223K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software development experience.
  • 2+ years of system design or architecture experience.
  • Proficient in at least one programming language.
  • Experience in full software development lifecycle.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead efforts to integrate distributed training support into PyTorch and JAX.
  • Tune large machine learning models for optimal performance.
  • Develop distributed training solutions with Trainium acceleration.
  • Collaborate with chip architects and compiler engineers.
  • Utilize FSDP, DeepSpeed, and other libraries for distributed training.

Benefits

  • High value placed on work-life balance with flexible hours.
  • Strong emphasis on mentorship and career growth opportunities.
  • Inclusive team culture with diverse employee-led affinity groups.
  • Innovative benefit offerings and annual learning experiences.
Full Job Description
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 LLama4, Mixtral, DBRX and beyond, as well as stable diffusion, Vision Transformers and many more.

The Distributed training team works side by side with chip architects, compiler engineers and runtime engineers to create , build and tune distributed training solutions with Trainium. Experience training these large models using Python is a must. FSDP, Deepspeed and other distributed training libraries are central to this and extending all of this for the Neuron based system is key.

Key job responsibilities

This role will help lead the efforts building distributed training support into Pytorch and Jax using XLA and the Neuron compiler and runtime stacks. This role will help tune these models to ensure highest performance and maximize the efficiency of them running on the customer AWS Trainium . Strong software development and ML knowledge are both critical to this role.

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

- 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

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