Software Development Engineer - Testing Infrastructure & Performance, Trainium/Neuron, Annapurna Labs
Amazon · Cupertino, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Cupertino, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, Serverless, DynamoDB. Compensation is listed at $127,100–$185,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Cupertino, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- May 29, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThe Neuron team within Annapurna ML develops the software stack that powers AWS’s custom AI training and inference chips (Trainium, Inferentia). Our team builds and operates the testing infrastructure and performance characterization systems that ensure every release meets quality and performance bars before reaching customers. We directly enable the velocity and reliability of Neuron software releases. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to own and evolve the testing infrastructure and performance pipeline that validates Neuron software across workloads, models, and hardware configurations. You will build data pipelines that collect, process, and surface performance metrics — and dashboards that give engineers and leadership real-time visibility into regression detection, performance trends, and release readiness. Your work directly impacts how fast we ship high-quality software to customers running ML workloads on Trainium. Key job responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain automated testing infrastructure (Python) that validates Neuron compiler, runtime, and framework integrations across hardware targets - Build and operate data pipelines that ingest performance benchmarks, test results, and system metrics from distributed test runs into centralized data stores - Develop performance dashboards that surface regression detection, trend analysis, and release-readiness signals to engineering teams and leadership - Create and maintain integration…