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Sr. Software Engineer- AI/ML, AWS Neuron Distributed Training
$193K–$262K
Cupertino, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in the stated software development, programming, system design or architecture, and full software development life cycle areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads development and optimization of distributed model training on AWS Trainium across the Neuron software stack, enabling large-scale workloads and improving performance.
What you'll do
- Optimize distributed training throughput, model FLOPs utilization, and time to convergence across Neuron.
- Enable new model architectures on Trainium and develop parallelism strategies, operators, sharding, and numerics for correct, efficient training.
- Profile workloads, drive fixes across software layers, influence future Trainium architecture, and contribute upstream to open-source frameworks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, including 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, and 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead or leading an engineering team; experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience in computer architecture.
- Software engineering expertise with Pytorch/Jax/Tensorflow, distributed libraries and frameworks, or end-to-end model training.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Neuron, Trainium, PyTorch, JAX, Neuron compiler, Neuron runtime, Tensorflow
AI focus
Enables and optimizes large-scale machine learning and Generative AI training on Trainium, including model enablement, parallelism strategies, and reduced-precision formats.
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