Software Development Manager, AWS SageMaker Training

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
At AWS AI, we want to make it easy for our customers to train their deep learning workload in the cloud. With Amazon SageMaker Training, we are building customer-facing services to empower data scientists and software engineers in their deep learning endeavors. As our customers rapidly adopt LLMs and Generative AI for their business, we’re building the next-generation AI platform to accelerate their development. We’re seeking a dedicated engineering leader to drive building our next-generation AI compute platform that’s optimized for LLMs and distributed training.


Key job responsibilities
We are seeking a Software Development Manager for our SageMaker team. As an engineering Leader you will lead and own the innovation in the space of ML Infra for enabling large scale model training, building compelling functionality and new capabilities for the Amazon SageMaker Hyperpod and SageMaker Training.
You will be responsible for leading a team of Software/ML engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of ML platform. A successful candidate will have an established background in machine learning algorithms and developing ML services, excellent project leadership skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

A day in the life
* Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
* Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best ML algorithm design and approach
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
* Customer engagement and product road map definition

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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