Senior SoC Validation Engineer, Amazon Devices

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Since then, we have worked to produce best-selling e-readers and tablets, as well as new inventions like Echo line of products, Fire TV and Fire phone.

As a Senior SoC Validation engineer in Amazon Lab126, you will have a leadership role in defining and delivering validation methodology for pre-silicon; emulation and hardware prototyping platforms, as well as post silicon efforts for custom multi-media SoCs targeted for next-generation Amazon consumer devices. You will engage with the Silicon and System Architecture, Product Planning, and Technology Platform teams to validate hardware and software for these custom SoCs.

Key responsibilities: • Contribute to building and developing a world-class emulation and validation team • Deliver best in class work flows to develop and implement validation strategies for SoC emulation prototyping and post silicon • Attend and run cross-functional engineering meetings • Dive into and take ownership of crucial execution issues • Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality • Drive analysis to determine performance targets

Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science
• 10+ years in working on emulation/prototyping and validation of ASIC/SoC products
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expertise in protocols/interfaces such as USB, PCI, I2C, SPI, CSI, DSI, I2S, DDR, Flash etc.
• Expertise in building robust testplans that ratify system features
• Expertise in silicon bring up involving complex SoC products
• Expertise in Firmware/Linux
• Understanding of emulation platforms like Zebu/Palladium/Veloce
• Understanding of prototyping platforms like HAPs/Proteum etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science
• Experience with multi-media SoCs in domains like audio, speech, computer vision, machine learning, multi-media
• Experience developing methodology for emulation, prototyping, and silicon validations
• Demonstrated success delivering high quality, innovative products based on rapidly evolving technologies

Join our team and help shape the future of Amazon's innovative devices!