Software Development Engineer - Silicon Development Infrastructure

• We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to help architect, build, and operate the
• infrastructure that accelerates silicon development at Annapurna Labs. In this role, you'll
• contribute to the platforms, tooling, and automation that enable our chip design teams to iterate
• faster, validate more thoroughly, and bring transformative silicon to market. You'll work at the
• intersection of cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, and electronic design
• automation—building systems that directly impact AWS's ability to innovate in custom silicon.
• This is a unique opportunity to grow your skills in infrastructure that supports chip development
• while working with world-class engineers across hardware, software, and operations disciplines.
• Key job 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 your day investigating anomalies in job completion rates or resource utilization
• patterns. You could spend your morning collaborating with a design verification team to optimize
• their regression workflows, identifying bottlenecks and proposing improvements. In the
• afternoon, you might be building new tooling that simplifies infrastructure access for emulation
• teams, or contributing to monitoring dashboards that give teams real-time visibility into their
• development velocity.
• You'll participate in design reviews, contribute to postmortems when incidents occur, and
• continuously refine the systems that accelerate the path from RTL to silicon. Throughout the
• day, you'll balance immediate customer needs—unblocking a team waiting for compute capacity
• —with longer-term platform investments. You'll write code, review infrastructure-as-code
• changes, and collaborate across teams who depend on the systems you build.

Take a look inside our labs to see what you will learn at Annapurna Labs

• <https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/take-a-look-inside-the-lab-where-aws-makes->

custom-chips

• <https://youtu.be/rViVFrQg4Hk>

• About the team
• At Annapurna Labs, your infrastructure work directly enables breakthrough innovations in
• custom silicon that power AWS and transform industries. You'll collaborate with world-class chip
• designers, verification engineers, and software developers who are pushing the boundaries of
• what's possible. We offer the resources and scale of AWS with the innovation culture and
• technical depth of a focused silicon team.
• If you're passionate about building infrastructure that accelerates innovation, thrive on customer
• obsession and ownership, and want to see your work enable the next generation of AWS silicon
• —we want to hear from you