AI Hardware Systems Engineer, Annapurna Labs, Trainium Machine Learning Fleet Operations
AmazonAI Hardware Systems Engineer, Annapurna Labs, Trainium Machine Learning Fleet Operations
AmazonLocation
Austin, TX
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/10/2026
Compensation
$136,000 - $184,000 per year
Job description
The Platform Development Engineer role at Annapurna Labs focuses on maintaining and optimizing a fleet of advanced machine learning servers. The team is responsible for ensuring operational excellence and enhancing customer experience through innovative software solutions. Engineers will work closely with hardware and software teams to debug issues and implement improvements. This position requires a blend of software development skills and systems engineering knowledge to tackle complex challenges in a cutting-edge environment.
Requirements
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals including networking, storage, and operating systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience debugging and systems analysis to identify and quickly resolve or mitigate issues
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- 4+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems, and systems experience
- Experience with post-silicon validation
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
Responsibilities
- Be a member of a team responsible for system remediation, operational excellence, and customer experience on advanced ML products
- Utilize data to root cause hardware failures and identify live trends on complex systems in AWS
- Implement and improve system level testing across the product lifecycle
- Develop maintainable, documented, tested, and reusable software
- Dive deep on issues at the intersection of hardware and software
- Maximize the health, sellability, and customer experience of the ML server platform
- Review dashboards to identify trends and triage emergent issues
- Partner with hardware and software engineering teams to debug and investigate findings
- Own the end-to-end testing story and manage tradeoffs between coverage and velocity
- Direct new automations, tooling, and data infrastructure to scale operations
- Manage software deployments and debug related issues
- Run status meetings to align platform stakeholders on product performance
Benefits
- Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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