Amazon
Software Development Manager, SageMaker Training
$213K–$288K
Santa Clara, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years engineering team management; 7+ years working directly within engineering teams; 5+ years designing or architecting systems.
About the job
Leads the team building and operating SageMaker services that let customers post-train and customize foundation models at scale.
What you'll do
- Own the team's charter, roadmap, technical direction, and decisions about what to build.
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers, partnering with senior engineers, applied scientists, and product managers.
- Own production service health and improve training throughput and cost across accelerator fleets.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
- 5+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Knowledge of full software/hardware/networks development life-cycle practices; experience partnering with product or program management teams and recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing Software Engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and model execution optimization.
- Experience with PyTorch, JIT compilation, and AOT tracing; deep learning libraries, production LLM deployment, or large-scale machine learning systems.
Pay
212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, Verl, FSDP, Megatron, vLLM, TensorFlow, MxNet, Neuron
AI focus
Leads development of managed post-training and model-customization services, including reinforcement learning and agentic training; improves training performance and cost on accelerator fleets.
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