Software Development Engineer Iii, Annapurna Labs

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · NY +1 · Software Development

Software Development Engineer III at Amazon Annapurna Labs, focused on building AI agents and tools to simplify and accelerate customer adoption of AWS Neuron, the software stack for Amazon's ML silicon (Trainium). The role involves technical leadership, research, and delivery of innovative software solutions to improve ML workload porting and optimization on AWS hardware.

What you'd actually do

  1. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
  2. Deliver on goals to improve the time and effort it takes to port and optimize Machine Learning workloads on Neuron.
  3. Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack
  4. Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
  5. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • Hands-on technical experience working in the Generative AI space
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information concisely to executives and non-technical leaders.
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: ML compilers, production coding agents, GenAI model architecture, model training, neural network optimization, or alternatively applied math.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Master's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
  • 2+ years in machine learning or other computational modeling environments with an emphasis on hosting, building or optimizing models for diverse hardware platforms
  • Proven track record in building AI agents that automate ML workload optimization, ML compiler tuning, distributed inference and training, or ML kernel authoring and optimization
  • Experience working with open-source software communities in the optimization space or related areas
  • Domain-level knowledge of AWS services
  • Knowledge of the state-of-the-art technology used in the Machine Learning space and its mathematical underpinning

What the JD emphasized

  • technical lead
  • building AI agents and tools
  • accelerate customer adoption of Neuron
  • technical responsibilities
  • Generative AI space
  • production coding agents
  • GenAI model architecture
  • model training
  • neural network optimization
  • building AI agents that automate ML workload optimization
  • ML compiler tuning
  • distributed inference and training
  • ML kernel authoring and optimization

Other signals

  • building agents
  • accelerate customer adoption of Neuron
  • technical lead for a team building AI agents and tools