Senior Virtual Platform Engineer: SoC Modeling & QEMU

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,860 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Austin is seeking a software engineer to build and own full-system virtual platform models of SoCs, including Trainium/Inferentia-scale subsystems. You will work with firmware, driver, runtime, and application teams to run real workloads on our platform.

You'll design and implement functional models, contribute to QEMU integration, and optimize simulation performance at scale. Experience with C++, SystemC, and Python tooling is highly valued; salary range is

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development in a non-internship role.
• 7+ years creating functional or performance models for SoCs/ASICs/GPUs.
• Experience with C++ and/or SystemC and architecture knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and own functional models of SoC subsystems for the virtual platform.
• Design usable, high-performing models for software engineers as customers.
• Develop and improve platform infrastructure, including QEMU integration and tooling.
• Collaborate with firmware, driver, runtime, and application teams to optimize workloads.
• Drive simulation performance improvements for increasingly complex workloads.

Skills

C++

SystemC

Python

Mentoring

Team leadership

System-level modeling

QEMU

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

QEMU

PyTest

GoogleTest

SystemC

Job description

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Austin is seeking a software engineer to build and own full-system virtual platform models of SoCs, including Trainium/Inferentia-scale subsystems. You will work with firmware, driver, runtime, and application teams to run real workloads on our platform.

You'll design and implement functional models, contribute to QEMU integration, and optimize simulation performance at scale. Experience with C++, SystemC, and Python tooling is highly valued; salary range is