Amazon
Sr. Software Engineer- AI/ML, Amazon Neuron Training
$193K–$262K
Cupertino, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software development, programming, and leading system design or architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads development and performance optimization of distributed training and post-training support for PyTorch and JAX on AWS Trainium accelerators.
What you'll do
- Build distributed training and post-training support in PyTorch and JAX for Trainium.
- Own parallelism strategies and optimize large-scale training, post-training, and reinforcement learning workloads across the Neuron software stack.
- Profile workloads, drive performance fixes across software layers, and translate gaps into framework requirements and open-source contributions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead; familiarity with LLM/transformer fundamentals; experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, or natural language processing.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or above in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience deploying LLMs, SFT or RLHF/PPO/DPO, ML frameworks or distributed training, performance engineering, computer architecture, or open-source contributions.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, AWS Trainium, Neuron, GPUs, TPU
AI focus
Distributed training and post-training for LLMs, including reinforcement learning and fine-tuning, on Trainium; performance optimization and parallelism strategies.
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