Virtual Platform Engineer: SoC Modeling & QEMU

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Cupertino or Austin seeks a software engineer to build and own virtual platform models for Trainium/Inferentia SoCs. You'll work on full-system simulations, C++/SystemC modeling, and infrastructure, enabling software teams to run workloads before silicon arrives.

Responsibilities include developing functional models, improving QEMU integration, and driving performance at scale, with close collaboration with firmware, driver, runtime, and application teams.

Qualifications

• Experience programming in C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
• 2+ years writing functional models, virtual platforms, or system-level simulations for hardware.
• Familiarity with SoC/CPU/GPU/ASIC architecture and micro-architecture.
• 2+ years of full software development life cycle with coding standards and code reviews.
• Experience developing for or integrating with QEMU.
• Experience with SystemC, TLM, or transaction-level modeling.
• Experience building simulation infrastructure, CI pipelines, or release tooling.
• Familiarity with Modern C++ (20 and beyond).
• Experience with PyTest, GoogleTest, or similar test frameworks.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming.
• Familiarity with firmware, driver, or runtime software development.

Responsibilities

• Build and own functional models of SoC subsystems for virtual platform.
• Develop and improve virtual platform infrastructure: QEMU integration, performance, tooling, docs.
• Design models for usability and performance for software engineers.
• Develop and improve the virtual platform infrastructure: QEMU integration, simulation performance, build and release tooling, and customer-facing documentation
• Collaborate with software teams to understand workflows and debug issues.
• Drive simulation performance improvements for larger workloads.
• Contribute to model architecture decisions based on customer needs.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Java

Perl

Tools

QEMU

SystemC

TLM

GoogleTest

PyTest

C++20

Job description

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Cupertino or Austin seeks a software engineer to build and own virtual platform models for Trainium/Inferentia SoCs. You'll work on full-system simulations, C++/SystemC modeling, and infrastructure, enabling software teams to run workloads before silicon arrives.

Responsibilities include developing functional models, improving QEMU integration, and driving performance at scale, with close collaboration with firmware, driver, runtime, and application teams.