Senior Virtual Platform Engineer: SoC Modeling & QEMU

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

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a software engineer to build and own models and infrastructure for a full-system virtual platform used by firmware, driver, runtime, and application software teams.

The role focuses on functional model development for SoCs, integration with QEMU, and performance optimization. You will collaborate with software teams to understand workflows, ensure usability, and drive scalability of simulations on modern silicon architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of non-internship professional experience writing functional or performance models.
• Experience programming with C++ and/or SystemC.

Responsibilities

• Build and own functional models of SoC subsystems for the virtual platform.
• Develop and improve the virtual platform infrastructure and tooling.
• Design models for usability and performance for software engineers.
• Work with software teams to understand workflows and debug issues.
• Drive simulation performance improvements for larger workloads.

Skills

C++

SystemC

Python

QEMU

Performance modeling

Multi-threading

ML accelerator

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

QEMU integration

Job description

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a software engineer to build and own models and infrastructure for a full-system virtual platform used by firmware, driver, runtime, and application software teams.

The role focuses on functional model development for SoCs, integration with QEMU, and performance optimization. You will collaborate with software teams to understand workflows, ensure usability, and drive scalability of simulations on modern silicon architectures.