ML Accelerator Validation Engineer II

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a Validation Engineer to own critical validation across the product lifecycle for ML accelerators.

You will work from RTL simulation through emulation to silicon validation, collaborating with architecture, RTL design, firmware, and software teams to ensure quality and performance. You will validate ML workloads, build CI/CD test frameworks, and support production systems in AWS data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on post-silicon validation or system validation engineering experience.
• Strong programming skills (Python, Lua, C/C++, Rust) for production-quality test code.
• Experience developing and executing validation test plans for complex SoCs, CPUs, or accelerators.
• Hands-on lab experience with hardware bring-up and debug equipment.
• Solid understanding of computer architecture and digital design principles.
• Proficiency with Linux environments, Git, and SSH.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex hardware/software issues.

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.

Skills

Programming skills (Python, Lua, C/C++

Computer architecture

AWS services & cloud infrastructure

Firmware development

Validation experience (PCIe, HBM, GPUs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

SystemVerilog/UVM

VCS/Questa/Xcelium

Palladium/Zebu/Veloce

Linux

Job description

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a Validation Engineer to own critical validation across the product lifecycle for ML accelerators.

You will work from RTL simulation through emulation to silicon validation, collaborating with architecture, RTL design, firmware, and software teams to ensure quality and performance. You will validate ML workloads, build CI/CD test frameworks, and support production systems in AWS data centers.