Software Development Engineer - Silicon Development Infrastructure (AWS)

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer for Silicon Development Infrastructure in Austin, TX. You will architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that accelerates silicon development, collaborate with design, verification, and emulation teams, and create automation that eliminates manual toil.

You will own platform delivery and operations, from design through production, including CI/CD pipelines, verification, testing, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• Experience with at least one major programming language (e.g., C++, Java, Python).
• 3+ years of systems/infra experience including networking, storage, OS concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with silicon design, verification, emulation, and software teams to understand workflows and pain points.
• Build tooling and automation to reduce toil and speed up silicon development.
• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure and HPC clusters (Slurm).
• Develop monitoring and observability to surface actionable insights.

Skills

C++

Python

Java

C#

Golang

PowerShell

Linux/Unix

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

CDK

Slurm

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Software Development Engineer - Silicon Development Infrastructure

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to help architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that accelerates silicon development at Annapurna Labs. In this role you will collaborate with silicon design, verification, emulation, and software teams, build tooling and automation to eliminate manual toil, and create systems that directly impact AWS's ability to innovate in custom silicon.

Key Responsibilities

Customer-Focused Infrastructure Development

• Partner with silicon design, verification, emulation, and software teams to understand their development workflows, pain points, and iteration cycles.
• Build tooling and automation that eliminates manual toil and reduces time‑to‑results.
• Gather continuous feedback from internal customers and rapidly iterate on solutions.
• Benchmark infrastructure based on silicon development workflows to provide internal customers with the optimal resources for silicon development.

Own Platform Delivery and Operations

• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure and high‑performance computing clusters using schedulers like Slurm.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure‑as‑code and service deployments with comprehensive testing and safe rollback mechanisms.
• Take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency from initial design through production operation.

Drive Results Through Automation and Observability

• Develop monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting systems that surface actionable insights on efficiency, utilization, reliability, and cost trends.
• Establish incident response processes, runbooks, and documentation that enable operational excellence.
• Proactively anticipate system failures and implement preventive measures, reducing operational toil and improving system resilience.

A day in the Life

Each day you will work with some of the best engineers in the industry to develop Machine Learning Accelerators. On‑site in Austin, Texas, you will be part of the team that develops custom silicon and contribute to the infrastructure that enables this innovation. You might start the day investigating anomalies in job completion rates or resource utilization patterns, collaborate with a design verification team to optimize their regression workflows, or build new tooling that simplifies infrastructure access for emulation teams.

Take a look inside our labs: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/take-a-look-inside-the-lab-where-aws-makes-custom-chips and https://youtu.be/rViVFrQg4Hk

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language and modern languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK).
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large‑scale infrastructure.
• Experience with high‑performance computing (HPC) clusters using workload schedulers like Slurm.
• Familiarity with semiconductor development workflows or electronic design automation (EDA) environments.
• Experience building services using AWS products.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build processes.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management at scale.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

Location: USA, TX, Austin. Salary range: $143,700.00 – $194,400.00 USD annually. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.