Software Development Engineer AI/ML, Inference Serving, AWS Neuron
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 Java, C#, AWS, PyTorch and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $193,300–$261,500 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Cupertino, CA
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Sep 19, 2025
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Job description
from Amazon careersAWS Neuron is the software stack powering AWS Inferentia and Trainium machine learning accelerators, designed to deliver high-performance, low-cost inference at scale. The Neuron Serving team develops infrastructure to serve modern machine learning models—including large language models (LLMs) and multimodal workloads—reliably and efficiently on AWS silicon. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to lead and architect our next-generation model serving infrastructure, with a particular focus on large-scale generative AI applications. Key job responsibilities * Architect and lead the design of distributed ML serving systems optimized for generative AI workloads * Drive technical excellence in performance optimization and system reliability across the Neuron ecosystem * Design and implement scalable solutions for both offline and online inference workloads * Lead integration efforts with frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Torch XLA, TensorRT, and Triton * Develop and optimize system components for tensor/data parallelism and disaggregated serving * Implement and optimize custom PyTorch operators and NKI kernels * Mentor team members and provide technical leadership across multiple work streams * Drive architectural decisions that impact the entire Neuron serving stack * Collaborate with customers, product owners, and engineering teams to define technical strategy * Author technical documentation, design proposals, and architectural guidelines A…