Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced CPLD/FPGA Firmware Engineer to join our ML Acceleration Server Firmware team, which is responsible for developing firmware to enable power sequencing and developing control systems for ML Acceleration servers in the data center. The team focuses on deploying firmware to diverse environments, including pre-silicon emulation, hardware manufacturing, automated testing, and production systems used by customers.
Technologies useful to this role include computer architecture, hardware description languages (HDLs), and embedded systems. Our team uses Verilog, C, C++, Lua, bash, Python and other similar languages. Although we use machine learning workloads to validate systems software, this team is focused on codeveloping reliable server software and hardware for customers to deploy their ML workloads at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop CPLD and FPGA programs that implement power sequencing and manage various protocols, including PWM, I2C, and SPI
- Develop systems software and drivers
- Define test and automation flows to validate firmware
- Evaluate and optimize firmware performance
- Build error detection and recovery mitigation systems at AWS scale
A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to develop server firmware in a highly cross-functional environment, working side by side with software and hardware teams to optimize customer experience. You will be responsible for building scalable designs that can be tested throughout the stages of product development including manufacturing and production. You will leverage automation, continuous integration, and fleet metrics to deploy and monitor your changes.
This is a hardware team, we focus on system programming related to accelerators and other devices. We are not implementing Machine Learning, we think more about device drivers than training algorithms.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of programming with at least one hardware description language (HDL) experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- Experience in RTL development in Verilog, VHDL, or SystemC
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 and 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.
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually