Systems Development Engineer, Annapurna Labs, ML Accelerator Systems
The Machine Learning Platform Software Team is looking for a Systems Development Engineer who wants to develop industry leading acceleration platforms with an affinity towards efficient, robust, and highly available systems.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. Annapurna Labs (our organization within AWS UC) designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time ago—even yesterday.Our custom chips, accelerators, and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before, and deliver results that help our customers change the world.
Key job responsibilities
You will develop software systems to measure and evaluate machine learning accelerator firmware performance, automate failure detection and remediation, and automate validation of device metrics.- Evaluate and optimize firmware performance
- Develop testing frameworks to validate firmware
- Develop software that initializes and monitors system health
- Build data collection and aggregation systems at AWS scale
- Build error detection and recovery mitigation systems at AWS scale
A day in the life
The team is focused on our organization's ability to scale. Automation, software best practices, and good architectural abstractions are key to this endeavor.
You will have the opportunity to develop software and automation systems in a highly cross-functional environment, working side by side with software and hardware teams to optimize customer experience. You will be responsible for building scalable software systems that can be tested throughout the stages of product development including manufacturing and production.You will leverage automation, continuous integration, and fleet metrics to deploy and monitor your changes.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
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About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
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