Drimva

Amazon

SDE, Neuron Inference, Neuron Inference

$144K–$194K

Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026

Experience
3+ years professional software development; 2+ years systems design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year large-scale software development and 1+ year Object Oriented Design.
Education
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Develop and optimize core LLM inference components for AWS Neuron accelerators, adapting research to improve performance and accuracy across models.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize LLM inference building blocks, including attention, MLP, quantization, speculative decoding, and mixture of experts.
  • Adapt LLM optimization research to Neuron chips for open-source and internal models.
  • Collaborate with chip architects, compiler engineers, runtime engineers, and other teams.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
  • At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software language.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AWS Neuron, AWS Inferentia, Trainium, C#, C++, Java, Perl

AI focus

Optimize LLM inference on AWS Neuron accelerators, including attention, MLP, quantization, speculative decoding, and mixture-of-experts; apply research to improve model performance and accuracy.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)