Neuron Collectives Software Engineer, Trainium Collectives; AWS

Neuron Collectives Software Engineer, Trainium Collectives

As a Neuron Collectives Software Developer, you will:

• Enhance collective algorithms and topologies for optimal training performance
• Use tools like Neuron Explorer to identify bottlenecks in compute and bus bandwidth utilization
• Monitor and analyze processor, DMA, firmware, and workload metrics
• Optimize collective operations to scale AI compute across the data center through low level device driver development
• Work closely with the hardware team to co-optimize software and Trainium silicon
• Develop and optimize C/C++ implementations of collective communication patterns
• Investigate and implement improvements for specific training topologies used by modern LLMs
• Build and maintain analysis frameworks and automation solutions

Annapurna Labs, part of AWS, created Trainium as a purpose-built AI training chip to revolutionize machine learning at Amazon scale. The Neuron Collectives team owns the software stack that enables collective operations – the communication primitives that allow AI training to scale across thousands of chips in the data center. Our work is essential to training the frontier models that power AI today.

We work closely with hardware teams to extract maximum performance from Trainium, ensuring that compute and interconnect bandwidth are fully utilized. Our team sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and distributed systems.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include:

• Work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
• Adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service
• Follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. To comply with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.