Embedded Software Engineer, Annapurna

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Annapurna Labs is a semiconductor company established by semiconductor industry veterans and is now part of Amazon Web Services. We develop leading edge products, manufactured with cutting edge technologies. We offer a dynamic, open, teamwork environment operating at a high pace. Join us and become part of an elite team working on new disruptive system architectures. We are growing and hiring people who are inspired by the opportunity to define and build the next generation semiconductor platform.

The Annapurna Labs team is looking for a junior Embedded Software Engineer, to join us in building the next generation of networking products. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the technologies that power the world’s largest cloud provider, in a dynamic, open, fast-paced environment. Working for Annapurna Labs is a thrilling and constant learning experience. As an embedded SW development engineer, you will be responsible for developing features for Annapurna Labs next-generation hardware, to enable high network bandwidth and packets-per-seconds (PPS) performance, with consistently low latency. You will work to bring up a broad selection of instance types, optimized for various use cases, to suit each of our customers’ needs, such as varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capabilities. As a SW development engineer, you will play a key role in shaping architecture definitions and SW system designs and help to resolve complex customer issues. You will continuously evolve technically, while working to monitor AWS cloud health, maintain high-quality standards, develop highly optimized code, and provide exceptional customer satisfaction.

We are seeking an engineer to join our team that owns the network stack for EC2 distributed AI/ML systems. The team develops support for a variety of frameworks and communication libraries including NCCL, NVSHMEM, NIXL, NCCL GIN, and Perplexity kernels.

For further information we invite you to watch the 2025 re:Invent keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeUpUK0nhC0

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Basic qualifications

- B.Sc. in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related field. Make sure to include a grade sheet with your CV in a single PDF
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Strong C/C++ skills

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in embedded SW Development
- Hands-on experience developing in a Linux environment
- Experience with HW/SW interfaces at both the board and chip level
- Understanding of computer architecture
- Personal characteristics: team player, highly motivated, willing to work in a dynamic and demanding environment, creative, and a fast learner

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How we rate this

Embedded Software Engineer, Annapurna at Amazon rates 28 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.