AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators. This role is for a senior software engineer in the Machine Learning Inference Applications team. This role is responsible for development and performance optimization of core building blocks of LLM Inference - Attention, MLP, Quantization, Speculative Decoding, Mixture of Experts, etc.
Requirements
- 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
- Fundamentals of Machine learning models, their architecture, training and inference lifecycles along with work experience on some optimizations for improving the model performance.
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch or Jax - preferably involving developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware.
Responsibilities
- development and performance optimization of core building blocks of LLM Inference - Attention, MLP, Quantization, Speculative Decoding, Mixture of Experts, etc.
- adapting latest research in LLM optimization to Neuron chips to extract best performance from both open source as well as internally developed models.
- Working across teams and organizations is key.
Other
- Our team is dedicated to supporting new members.
- We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship.
- Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
- We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
