Senior SoC DevOps Engineer for ML Silicon CI/CD

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced Senior SoC Software DevOps Engineer to own end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines for SoC software components, including firmware and modeling tools. The role spans pre‑silicon simulation and post‑silicon production environments, aligning with AWS’s advanced ML accelerator projects.

You will design scalable infrastructure, validate hardware‑in‑the‑loop processes, and drive release quality across diverse environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full software development lifecycle experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Programming experience in Python and at least one of: Bash, Go, C++, or Java.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines and release processes for all SoC software components, including firmware, hardware abstraction layers, and modeling tools.
• Design, maintain, and evolve systems that produce reliable releases for internal verification teams and external AWS services, ensuring pipelines function across heterogeneous environments.
• Build qualification workflows that guarantee software meets strict quality standards before reaching customers or verification teams.
• Develop hardware‑in‑the‑loop test infrastructure that validates SoC software on actual silicon in laboratory and automated testing settings, creating frameworks to run tests on real chips and integrate results into continuous integration workflows.
• Build observability tools such as dashboards that track build health, test coverage, and pipeline performance, and implement alerting systems that notify teams of regressions.
• Identify and remove friction in development workflows, such as slow build times or complex release steps, using data‑driven insights to prioritize improvements that accelerate team productivity.
• Solve novel problems like bridging disconnected environments and orchestrating synchronized releases across multiple domains.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Mentoring / tech lead

Python

Programming in Bash/Go/C++/Java

Infrastructure as code

AWS services

Linux build environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Jenkins

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced Senior SoC Software DevOps Engineer to own end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines for SoC software components, including firmware and modeling tools. The role spans pre‑silicon simulation and post‑silicon production environments, aligning with AWS’s advanced ML accelerator projects.

You will design scalable infrastructure, validate hardware‑in‑the‑loop processes, and drive release quality across diverse environments.