Senior Firmware Engineer: ML Power & Performance

Amazon; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Annapurna Labs team seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to join the Power Architecture group, developing firmware algorithms for power, thermal, and performance management on ML acceleration chips. You will design real‑time control policies, optimization strategies, and instrumentation to monitor system state and balance competing constraints.

Collaborate with hardware architects, build tooling and data pipelines, and own firmware quality through rigorous testing on hardware.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field.
• Strong firmware or embedded systems development experience.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for systems programming with strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience implementing efficient algorithms in resource‑constrained, real‑time environments.
• Experience with hardware interfaces, instrumentation, or performance monitoring.
• Strong debugging skills with hardware‑software systems.
• Experience building developer tools or instrumentation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware algorithms for power management, thermal control, and performance optimization on ML acceleration hardware.
• Develop real-time control policies and state machines that balance power, thermal, and performance constraints.
• Create optimization algorithms for resource allocation, frequency/voltage scaling, and workload scheduling.
• Implement efficient data structures and algorithms for embedded, resource-constrained environments.
• Design and implement on-device tracing and telemetry collection systems for algorithm development and validation.
• Build developer tools and data pipelines for metric collection, analysis, and visualization of algorithm behavior.
• Implement low-overhead instrumentation that minimizes impact on workload performance.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to understand hardware capabilities and identify instrumentation points.
• Develop automated testing and validation workflows; integrate with cloud-based analytics pipelines.
• Own firmware code quality through rigorous testing, debugging, and validation on hardware.

Skills

Firmware

Embedded systems

C/C++

Real-time

Algorithms

Debugging

Telemetry

Mentor/Lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Instrumentation

Profiling

Job description

Amazon’s Annapurna Labs team seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to join the Power Architecture group, developing firmware algorithms for power, thermal, and performance management on ML acceleration chips. You will design real‑time control policies, optimization strategies, and instrumentation to monitor system state and balance competing constraints.

Collaborate with hardware architects, build tooling and data pipelines, and own firmware quality through rigorous testing on hardware.