Amazon
Software Engineer-AI/ML, Inference Team - AWS Neuron
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship software development; 3+ years of non-internship system design or architecture; 2+ years developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and optimize open-source model-serving technologies for AWS Neuron chips, enabling more models to run efficiently in production.
What you'll do
- Implement and upstream inference features such as continuous batching, paged attention, quantization, and distributed inference in frameworks including vLLM and SGLang.
- Expand out-of-the-box model support and automate model enablement, testing, benchmarking, and release workflows.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver reliable, accurate, scalable, and efficient model inference.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 3+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 2+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques.
Nice to have
- Experience debugging, profiling, and applying software engineering best practices in large-scale systems.
- Experience deploying LLMs in production on AI acceleration hardware, using inference platforms such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT, or developing kernels with CUDA or Triton.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Neuron, vLLM, SGLang, C#, C++, Java, Perl, CUDA
AI focus
Develop and optimize LLM inference serving on AWS Neuron, including model enablement, performance optimization, and production deployment.
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