The team that built the innovative Silicon IP AZ1 Neural Edge that is powering the latest generation of Echo devices is looking for an SoC Validation Engineer to continue to innovate on behalf of our customers. We are a part of Amazon Lab126 that revolutionized reading with our Kindle family of products and reimagined user experience through Echo and Alexa, and our latest invention, Astro. We want you to help us build on the success of our first generation of ML accelerator at edge.
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
The SoC Validation engineer participates in all phases of the SoC design validation. Central to validation workstream is the FPGA development life cycle, including synthesis and timing closure of various subsystems of the SoC. The candidate will work with design, and verification engineers to create high performance SoC prototypes in FPGA platforms like HAPS (synopsys) to create models with the smallest footprint and highest frequencies using best practices for compile/synthesis/timing workflows. The candidate also participates in building necessary ecosystems for the SoC prototypes. They will build debug and analysis infrastructure on emulation and prototyping platforms which will also be used on silicon. They will build test plans in collaboration with other pre/post silicon efforts and prove functional and performant aspects of the SoC.
Key job responsibilities
Pre-silicon activities: Receive SoC RTL from design team and map it to validation platforms. Create fast and small models. Develop environment for SoC Models. Create functional and performant testplans. Implement testplans. Ratify functionality and performance.
Post-silicon: Implement pre-silicon testplan on silicon. Create screening procedures. Support board and software teams to receive early silicon. Work throughout this process to qualify design. Feedback functional and performance improvements to next generation architecture.
About the team
We are a new team, growing selectively, and central to all activities of our product development.- BSEE or BSCS
- 7+ years mapping complex SOC design into multi-FPGA prototyping platforms., e.g. Veloce, HAPS, Proteum, or other FPGA systems
- Strong FPGA model development expertise across all aspects of FPGA development cycle - Front-end, Back-end using FPGA tool flows like Synopsys Protocompiler, Xilinx Vivado
- Understanding of emulation/prototype/Silicon verification, test plan development and execution
- 7+ years in in-circuit emulation, FPGA fast prototyping.
- Expertise in industry standard interfaces and bus protocols: PCI/USB/ETH/SPI/I2C/PCI-E/SPI/AXI/AMBA- MSEE/MSCE
- Familiar with emulation platforms like Zebu
- Familiar with Boot/Reset Validation and FW/SW co-validation on prototyping systems
- Familiar with post-silicon early silicon bringup
- Familiar with for Hybrid/Virtual Platform extensions for prototyping
- Familiar with audio/video/display system validation
- System board design/debugging, RTL, lab equipment, e.g. oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
- Familiar with pre-Silicon prototyping tools, flows and methodologies
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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