Post-Silicon Systems Validation Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon
U.S. / Israel2025-11-12ONSITE

About the job

Join our Silicon Validation team to validate next-generation machine learning accelerators that power AWS's cloud computing infrastructure. You'll work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry on cutting-edge, internet-scale technology that directly impacts how customers use Machine Learning acceleration. We are changing the landscape of cloud infrastructure by accelerating the development of custom silicon by moving beyond traditional partnerships to dominate in AI training and inference.

Responsibilities

Developing comprehensive validation strategies and detailed test plans covering functional, performance, power, and stress testing from silicon bring-up to product release

Executing complex test plans from RTL simulation and emulation environments through physical silicon validation

Conducting hands-on silicon bring-up and debug in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers

Validating ML accelerator performance, accuracy, and reliability using real-world neural network workloads

Building test infrastructure, CI/CD, and automated regression frameworks to enable efficient validation at scale

Collaborating across architecture, design, firmware, and software teams to triage failures and drive root cause analysis to closure

Reviewing test results, identifying patterns, and providing feedback to improve design quality and validation coverage

Supporting production systems in AWS data centers and addressing field issues as they arise

Qualifications

Minimum

Strong programming skills (Python, Lua, C/C++, Rust, Go, etc)

A solid understanding of computer architecture

Experience with AWS services, cloud infrastructure, firmware development (BIOS, BMC, drivers)

Validation experience in any of these areas: PCIe, HBM, GPUs, neural networks, ML HW architecture, and/or CI/CD

Familiarity with the validation lifecycle from RTL simulation (SystemVerilog/UVM, VCS, Questa, Xcelium) and emulation (Palladium, Zebu, Veloce) through silicon failure analysis and debug

Preferred

Experience with Machine Learning Hardware/Software Architecture

Experience with CI/CD

Experience with EDA Simulations or Emulation