Amazon
Sr Systems Development Engineer, AWS AI/ML Servers
$151K–$235K
Austin, TX +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 6+ years in each of the specified systems design/software development/operations/automation/process improvement, non-internship software development, programming, and systems design or architecture categories; 5+ years of Linux/Unix experience. Preferred experience includes 5+ years in several listed areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Builds automation, diagnostics, and fleet-health systems to detect, troubleshoot, and prevent failures in AWS GPU-accelerated servers at scale.
What you'll do
- Develop fleet-health automation, predictive fault detection, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting.
- Build hardware test and qualification frameworks; develop and maintain Linux device drivers for ARM and x86.
- Debug production system issues across hardware, firmware, kernels, drivers, and networking; coordinate fixes across engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience; 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 6+ years programming in at least one modern language, such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
- 6+ years designing or architecting new and existing systems; 5+ years of Linux/Unix operating systems experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with software development life cycle, large-scale automation, hardware troubleshooting or validation, CUDA kernels, or data center operations.
Pay
173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby, Linux
AI focus
Supports AI/ML infrastructure by maintaining GPU-accelerated server fleets and building predictive diagnostics to prevent accelerator failures.
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