Are you interested in advancing Amazon's Generative AI capabilities? Come work with a talented team of engineers and scientists in a highly collaborative and friendly team. We are building state-of-the-art Generative AI technology that will benefit all Amazon businesses and customers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying high performance model inference capabilities, including but not limited to multi-modality, SOTA model architectures, latency, throughput, and cost. You will collaborate closely with a team of engineers and scientists to influence our overall strategy, and define the team’s roadmap. You will drive system architecture, spearhead best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
A day in the life
You will consult with scientists to get inspiration of emerging techniques, and blend those into our roadmap; You will design and experiment with new algorithms from public and internal papers, benchmark the latency and accuracy of your implementations; Most importantly you will implement production grade solutions, and see them through the deployments swiftly; You may need to collaborate with other science and engineering teams to get things done properly; You will hold highest bar in operational excellence and support production systems, and constantly create solutions to minimize the ops load.
About the team
Our mission is to build best-in-class, fast, accurate, and cost-efficient frontier model inference solutions and infrastructure that will enable Amazon businesses to deliver more value to their customers.- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Must have one of the following two: 1) Prior experience with software performance optimization Or 2) Knowledge of Deep Learning and Transformer architectures- 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
- Experience with Large Language Model Inference
- Experience with GPU programming (TensorRT-LLM)
- Experience with Python, PyTorch, and C++ programming and performance optimization
- Experience with Trainium and Inferentia Development
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
