Software Development Engineer

Software Development Engineer III, AWS SageMaker Training

Description

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

At AWS AI, we want to make it easy for our customers to train their deep learning workload in the cloud. With Amazon SageMaker Training, we are building customer-facing services to empower data scientists and software engineers in their deep learning endeavors. As our customers rapidly adopt LLMs and Generative AI for their business, we’re building the next-generation AI platform to accelerate their development. We’re seeking a dedicated software engineer to drive building our next-generation AI compute platform that’s optimized for LLMs and distributed training.


Key job responsibilities
As an SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying distributed machine learning systems and large-scale solutions for our world-wide customer base. In this, you will collaborate closely with a team of ML scientists and customers to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s roadmap. You'll assist in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements, and translate requirements into technical specifications for robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

About You:

You are passionate about building platform and products for large scale deep learning model training (100+ billion parameter GPT, 1000s of GPU devices). You have a proven track record of bringing innovative research to customers. You are able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. Ownership, delivering results, thinking big and analytical leadership are essential to success in this role.

You have solid experience in multi-threaded asynchronous C++ or Go development. You have prior experience in one of: resource orchestrators like slurm/kubernetes, high performance computing, building scalable systems, experience in large language model training.

This is a great team to come to have a huge impact on AWS and the world's customers we serve!

A day in the life
A day in the life
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

* Build and improve next-generation AI platform
* Collaborate with internal engineering teams, leading technology companies around the world and open source community - PyTorch, NVIDIA/GPU
* Create innovative products to run at scale on the AI platform, and see them launched in high volume production

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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