senior Software Engineer ic · Posted Mar 13, 2026
$168,100 – $227,400
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, PyTorch, LLMs, Testing. Compensation is listed at $168,100–$227,400 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Seattle, WA
Department
Software Development
Posted
Mar 13, 2026
AI Summary
Design and implement ML performance measurement infrastructure for EC2 Nitro systems. Establish best practices for LLM and AI workload optimization across AWS. Collaborate with hardware teams to influence accelerator platform designs based on performance insights and customer needs.

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Job description

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Join the EC2 Nitro Machine Learning Systems team to revolutionize supercomputing in the cloud. We're seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to build and optimize infrastructure powering the most computationally intensive AI/ML workloads. In this role, you'll establish EC2 as the definitive source for best-known-configurations across diverse ML applications while influencing future accelerated platform designs. You'll bring deep expertise in ML systems performance, working across the full stack from low-level hardware optimization to high-level frameworks. This position offers unique opportunities to translate state of the art ML research into practical platform improvements, build foundational measurement infrastructure, and directly support customers with performance challenges. If you're passionate about solving complex performance optimization problems at massive scale while directly influencing product strategy, this role provides the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement scalable performance measurement infrastructure that serves as the foundation for ML benchmarking across AWS, incorporating critical metrics like tokens/second, latency, and accelerator utilization - Lead technical projects establishing EC2 as the definitive source for ML performance best practices across diverse applications including LLMs, multimodal systems, and emerging model architectures - Develop and maintain comprehensive regression testing systems that validate performance across major…

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