Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Nitro
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with CUDA, AWS, PyTorch, LLMs. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 20, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin the EC2 Nitro Machine Learning Systems team to revolutionize accelerated computing in the cloud. We're seeking an exceptional Software Development Engineer to build and optimize the performance measurement infrastructure for some of the most computationally intensive AI/ML workloads on AWS. In this role, you'll establish EC2 as the definitive source for best-known-configurations across diverse ML applications including LLMs, multimodal models, and video generation workloads. Your expertise will directly influence future platform designs by translating performance insights from state of the art research and customer workloads into technical requirements for upcoming accelerated platform launches. Your impact will extend from low-level systems (CUDA, EFA, firmware) through ML frameworks to serving layers, requiring deep technical knowledge and the ability to communicate complex performance data as actionable business insights. This position offers the unique opportunity to shape the future of machine learning infrastructure at cloud scale while working at the intersection of high-performance computing, distributed systems, and machine learning technologies. Key job responsibilities - Design and build foundational infrastructure for ML performance measurement that scales with business demand and operates as reliable CI/CD systems, ensuring high-quality implementations that balance customer requirements with operational excellence - Develop comprehensive regression test coverage across all major…