Senior Firmware Engineer — Real-Time Power & ML Chip Tech

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Austin is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and implement firmware for power, thermal, and performance management on ML acceleration chips.

You will develop real-time control policies, instrumentation, and data pipelines to validate algorithms on hardware. The role reports to the Power Architecture team and offers opportunities to work close to silicon, build low-overhead telemetry, and contribute to hardware-aware software optimization in a collaborative

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 dynamically balance power, thermal, and performance constraints
• Create optimization algorithms for resource allocation, frequency/voltage scaling, and workload scheduling
• Implement efficient data structures and algorithms suitable for embedded, resource-constrained environments
• Design and implement on-device tracing and telemetry collection systems to support 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 optimal instrumentation points
• Develop automated testing and validation workflows; integrate with optional cloud-based analytics pipelines
• Own firmware code quality through rigorous testing, debugging, and validation on hardware

Skills

Firmware/Embedded

C/C++

Debugging

Mentorship/Tech lead

Algorithms & data structures

Hardware interfaces

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Instrumentation frameworks

On-device tracing

Python scripting

Job description

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Austin is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and implement firmware for power, thermal, and performance management on ML acceleration chips.

You will develop real-time control policies, instrumentation, and data pipelines to validate algorithms on hardware. The role reports to the Power Architecture team and offers opportunities to work close to silicon, build low-overhead telemetry, and contribute to hardware-aware software optimization in a collaborative