Job Description

Requirements

• 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
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Job Summary

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 Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Designing, developing, testing, and deploying high performance inference capabilities, including but not limited to multi-modality, SOTA model architectures, latency, throughput, and cost * Collaborating closely with a team of engineers and scientists to influence our overall strategy, and define the team’s roadmap * Driving system architecture, spearheading best practices, and mentoring junior engineers

A Day in the Life

• Reading papers and consulting with scientists to get inspiration of emerging techniques, and blending those into our roadmap
• Designing and experimenting with new algorithms, benchmarking the latency and accuracy of your implementations
• Implementing production-grade solutions, and seeing them through deployments swiftly
• Collaborating with other science and engineering teams to get things done properly
• Holding the highest bar in operational excellence and supporting production systems, and constantly creating solutions to minimize the ops load

About the Team

Our mission is to build best-in-class, fast, accurate, and cost-efficient large language model inference solutions and infrastructure that will enable Amazon businesses to deliver more value to their customers.

Locations

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: * Boston, MA, USA * New York, NY, USA

Requirements

• 5+ 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 Python, PyTorch, and C++ programming and performance optimization
• Experience with Large Language Model inference
• Experience with Trainium and Inferentia Development
• Experience with GPU programming (TensorRT-LLM)

Amazon's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Compensation and Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.