Senior Software Development Engineer

Are you interested in advancing Amazon's Generative AI capabilities? Come work with a talented team of ML engineers and scientists in a highly collaborative and friendly team. We are building state-of-the-art Generative AI technology that will benefit all Amazon businesses and customers. Key job responsibilities as a Senior Software Development Engineer include designing, developing, testing, and deploying high performance inference capabilities, including but not limited to multi-modality, SOTA model architectures, latency, throughput, and cost. You will collaborate closely with a team of engineers and scientists to influence our overall strategy, and define the team's roadmap. You will drive system architecture, spearhead best practices, and mentor junior engineers.

A day in the life includes reading papers and consulting with scientists to get inspiration of emerging techniques, and blending those into our roadmap; designing and experimenting with new algorithms, benchmarking the latency and accuracy of your implementations; implementing production grade solutions, and seeing them through the deployments swiftly; collaborating with other science and engineering teams to get things done properly; holding the highest bar in operational excellence and supporting production systems, and constantly creating solutions to minimize the ops load.

About the team: Our mission is to build best-in-class, fast, accurate, and cost-efficient large language model inference solutions and infrastructure that will enable Amazon businesses to deliver more value to their customers.

Basic qualifications include 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience, 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems experience, experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, and prior experience with software performance optimization. Or knowledge of machine learning and deep learning is preferred.

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