SoC Systems Software Engineer - Hardware/Software Co-Design

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Austin, TX or Cupertino, CA is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to work at the hardware‑software boundary on SoC models and validation infrastructure for ML accelerators.

You will debug interactions across the stack, collaborate with chip architects, RTL designers, modelers, compiler engineers, and ML framework teams, and build tooling to accelerate development. This role emphasizes low‑level software near silicon.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience developing firmware, drivers, runtime software, or low-level systems software for custom hardware (SoCs, ASICs, GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs)
• Experience programming in C++, Python, and/or Rust (preference for at least 2)

Responsibilities

• Develop and own components of SoC models, single-chip and DC-scale.
• Debug hardware/software interactions across the full software stack—from register-level bring-up to performance analysis on silicon.

Skills

Hardware architectures

Debugging complex HW/SW interactions

Performance profiling

Multithreading/Multi-process

Software close to hardware

Tools

C++

Python

Rust

Job description

Amazon in Austin, TX or Cupertino, CA is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to work at the hardware‑software boundary on SoC models and validation infrastructure for ML accelerators.

You will debug interactions across the stack, collaborate with chip architects, RTL designers, modelers, compiler engineers, and ML framework teams, and build tooling to accelerate development. This role emphasizes low‑level software near silicon.