Software Development Engineer, SageMaker HyperPod Data Plane

Mid • On-site

$129,300 - $223,600/yr

Santa Clara, CA

DESCRIPTION

At AWS AI, we want to make it easy for our customers to train their deep learning workload in the cloud. With Amazon SageMaker, AWS is building customer-facing services to empower data scientists and software engineers in their deep learning endeavors. As our customers rapidly adopt LLMs and Generative AI for their business, we’re building the next-generation AI platform to accelerate their development. We’re seeking a dedicated engineering team lead to drive building our next-generation AI compute platform that’s optimized for LLMs and distributed training.

As an SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying distributed machine learning systems and large-scale solutions for our world-wide customer base. In this, you will collaborate closely with a team of ML scientists and customers to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s roadmap. You'll assist in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements, and translate requirements into technical specifications for robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

About You:
You are passionate about building platform and products for large scale deep learning model training (100+ billion parameter GPT, 1000s of GPU devices). You have a proven track record of bringing innovative research to customers. You are able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. Ownership, delivering results, thinking big and analytical leadership are essential to success in this role.

You have solid experience in multi-threaded asynchronous C++/Go development. You have prior experience in resource orchestrators with kubernetes, high performance computing, building scalable systems, experience in large language model training.

This is a great team to come to have a huge impact on AWS and the world's customers we serve!

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the SageMaker team, you will be responsible for:
- Developing innovative solutions for supporting Large Language Model training in a cluster of nodes;
- Develop and maintain a performant, resilient and fully-managed service built to train large-scale foundation models.
- Optimizing distributed training by profiling, identifying bottlenecks and addressing them by improving compute and network performance, as well as finding opportunities for better compute/communication overlap;
- You will serve as a key technical resource in the full development cycle, from conception to delivery and maintenance.
- You will own delivery of entire piece of the system and serve as technical lead on complex projects using best practice engineering standards
- Hire/mentor junior development engineers

A day in the life
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

* Build and improve next-generation AI platform using Kubernetes as orchestration layer.
* Collaborate with internal engineering teams, leading technology companies around the world and open source community - PyTorch, NVIDIA/GPU
* Create innovative products to run at scale on the AI platform, and see them launched in high volume production

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
- Experience with deep learning frameworks and libraries (any of PyTorch, TensorFlow, Huggingface, etc.)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

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