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# Manager, Software Development (Hands-On Technical), ML Network Stack - Annapurna Labs

- **Company:** Annapurna Labs
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $287,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Protocol Stack, Computer Programming, Machine Learning, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, System Programming, Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions (SDES), Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** May 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7f8436eca290d691

## About the Role

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager for a mid-sized team, with multiple years of hands-on experience in systems programming, HW/SW co-design, and familiarity with networking (HPC networking preferred).

Experience with the NVIDIA stack, ML applications, and frameworks will be highly regarded. You'll be leading senior, mid-level, and junior SDEs and directing work to ensure the team delivers functions and features required for the latest and largest ML workloads., * 3+ years of engineering team management experience

 * Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
 * Experience partnering with product or program management teams
 * 3+ years of C or C++ or Rust development experience
 * 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, maintaining active programming proficiency

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

 * Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
 * Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

## Description

We are hiring a hands-on Software Development Manager for the 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, Perplexity kernels and others.


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