Senior ML Accelerator Validation Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Annapurna Labs, an AWS organization, is seeking a Senior Validation Engineer to lead end-to-end validation of next-generation ML accelerators powering AWS infrastructure.

You will drive validation strategy across silicon, PCB, high-speed interfaces, and system-level tests, collaborating with architecture, RTL, firmware, and software teams to ensure top quality and performance in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of non-internship system test development, code reviews, source control management, build processes, automated deployments, and operations experience
• Experience with Linux environments and Git
• Experience with server hardware and debug tools

Responsibilities

• Developing validation strategies and leads new methodologies to improve validation coverage and time to root cause
• Role models detailed test plans covering functional, performance, power, and stress testing from silicon bring-up to product release
• Mentors and provides direction to junior validation engineers
• Executes complex test plans from RTL simulation and emulation environments through physical silicon validation
• Handing complex debug including 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
• Delivering new tests to production systems in AWS data centers and manufacturing to improve fleet health

Skills

Programming skills

Computer architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Firmware testing

ML HW architecture

RTL simulation

Emulation tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

SystemVerilog/UVM

VCS

Questa

Xcelium

Palladium

Zebu

Veloce

Job description

Annapurna Labs, an AWS organization, is seeking a Senior Validation Engineer to lead end-to-end validation of next-generation ML accelerators powering AWS infrastructure.

You will drive validation strategy across silicon, PCB, high-speed interfaces, and system-level tests, collaborating with architecture, RTL, firmware, and software teams to ensure top quality and performance in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.