FPGA Development Engineer, Acceleration Systems

Annapurna Labs builds high-performance hardware and software solutions used in AWS data centers globally. We’re looking for a FPGA development engineer with a focus on building accelerator services.

As a FPGA Development Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering design, development, and deployment of FPGA based accelerators .

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

As a member of the Accelerator Systems FPGA team you’ll be responsible for the development of FPGA accelerator services used by our customers for running accelerators on AWS.

You will gain knowledge of how hardware and software in our data centers including technologies such as AWS F1 which is an AWS EC2 instance are used to deploy hardware accelerators in the cloud.

You will own large scale deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a world-class customer experience. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with multiple technology areas.

You’ll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve our products' performance, quality and cost.

We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop RTL designs for FPGA based acceleration; including designs running on the accelerator service, designs for customer examples and internal accelerators.
• Dive deep on issues at the intersection of hardware and software. Debug and troubleshoot hardware issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Member of a team responsible for system remediation, operational excellence, and customer experience on bleeding edge FPGA accelerator products
• Implement and improve simulation (design verification) testing across the product lifecycle
• Strong skills presenting technical information verbally and in written reports.
• Responsible for the FPGA development life cycle which includes defining product features and performance benchmarks needed to meet customer requirements
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Deliver accelerator designs as part of the SDK to external customers and FPGA developers
• Review and provide feedback on hardware architecture / design / validation / verification plans

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 RTL Design using Verilog or VHDL
• 3+ years of Experience with debugging in simulation environments using SystemVerilog / UVM
• FPGA Development experience
• Experience with Linux environments and Git
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in accelerator development on FPGAs or GPUs. Including hands on experience with accelerator development using C / C++ / OpenCL and optimization for HW
• Experience with deployment and test methods (CI / CD)
• Software development experience with drivers, firmware
30+ days ago