Emulation Engineer, AWS Annapurna Labs

Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures


Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

Strong communication skills that helps effectively articulate complex technical problems and collaborate with different teams

Experience with the project management of technical projects

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As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team you’ll be responsible for the design and optimization of hardware in our data centers including AWS Inferentia, our custom designed machine learning inference datacenter server. Our success depends on our world-class server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.

We are seeking a passionate Emulation Engineer to build the next generation of our cloud server infrastructure using our emulation platform. You will work closely with various teams to determine the emulation platform requirements, models needed for functional testing and automation of various workflows. You will be delivering a state-of-the-art testbench, integrate the ViP components into the SoC and ensure a high quality of the design delivered to the customers. You will be developing a strong understanding of the product and continuously raise the bar to ensuring that emulation models are functionally correct and performant.

Join us in creating the most advanced Machine Learning Accelerators in the world!

Key job responsibilities
* Design emulation capabilities in system verilog/C/C++/Python/Shell scripts to facilitate system validation flows
* Develop scalable compile flows targeting project requirements
* Knowledge of end to end emulation compilation flows involving front end and back end synthesis
* Familiar with using emulation tool chain from Zebu, Cadence or Veloce
* Develop System Verilog modules required for integrating with standard xtors
* Experience in run time architecture of any emulation framework.
* Develop run time framework in C++ to execute compiled emulation models
* Optimize build and run times of emulation models.
* Automate system flow execution in emulation using bash/python/tcl etc.
* Work with SoC teams to learn about system flows and execute them on emulation framework
* Debug RTL failures associated with chip functionality
* Proficient with using various emulation debug technologies
* Knowledge of using gdb and other techniques to debug software failures
* Work with vendors to ensure emulation tool chain is up to date with latest technologies

A day in the life
As an emulation engineer, you would be working closely with our vendor, software, firmware, architecture, design and verification teams to design and execute system validation flows.