Software Development Engineer III, Annapurna Labs

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 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
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

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Annapurna Labs builds custom Machine Learning accelerators that are at the forefront of AWS innovation and one of several AWS tools used for building Generative AI on AWS. The Neuron Compiler Engineering team is searching for a Senior Software Development Engineer to support the development infrastructure of a compiler to enable the world's largest ML workloads to run efficiently in the cloud.

Amazon Annapurna Labs organization is responsible for silicon development at AWS. Organization covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering, hardware design and verification, software and operations. The AWS Neuron team works to optimize the performance of complex neural net models on our custom-built AWS hardware. More specifically, the AWS Neuron team is developing a deep learning compiler stack that takes neural network descriptions created in frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Jax, and converts them into code suitable for execution.

As a Senior SDE, you will be responsible for identifying and designing solutions that enable efficient and reliable build, test, and release mechanisms for the Neuron compiler. You will design and implement a solution for distributed execution of the Neuron compiler that will help to run customer workloads more efficiently. You will leverage your technical communications skill as a hands-on partner to AWS ML services teams, bringing new products/features to market, and many other exciting projects.


Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:

- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.



A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:

- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input. You will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team comprised of compiler, hardware, and ML engineers.
- Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.