Senior ML Performance Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Our team is responsible for the AWS Neuron software stack, which powers Generative AI and other advanced ML workloads on AWS's custom-built ML accelerators — Inferentia and Trainium. These accelerators deliver best-in-class performance and cost-efficiency for ML inference and training in the cloud.
We're building a new core group of engineers in TLV (Tel Aviv) to drive innovation in ML systems performance and software. As a Machine Learning Performance Engineer, you'll help shape the direction of the team from the ground up and work on:

Optimizing system performance across the entire ML software stack
Analyzing high-performance ML workloads running on Annapurna hardware
Developing high-performance kernels for critical ML operations
Enhancing the Neuron SDK to improve developer experience and system capabilities
Collaborating across Compiler, Frameworks, and Hardware teams to maximize end-to-end performance

As part of the Performance Engineering Team, you'll contribute to projects involving instruction scheduling, memory management, parallelism, kernel optimization, and compiler enhancements to maximize end-to-end performance.

This is a unique opportunity to be at the intersection of ML and systems within AWS, helping to build the future of AI infrastructure — right here in Tel Aviv.


Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You will:

Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:

Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

Considering the technical requirements of this role, and to ensure fair and equal candidate consideration, we are conducting full interview loops. If you meet the basic qualifications, and the team is interested in moving forward, we will be in touch to coordinate your interviews.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Proficiency with 1 or more of the following programming languages: Python(preferred), C++
- Experience working with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or JAX
- 3+ years of experience in performance engineering for accelerated computing

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience developing compiler optimization, kernel writing or hardware-software co-design
- Experience in performance optimizations of LLM, Vision or other deep-learning models

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