Design Verification Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$104,900 - CA$175,100 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon's Custom Silicon organization is seeking a passionate Design Verification Engineer to join the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team. This team is revolutionizing cloud services through custom chip development, focusing on hardware solutions for AWS data centers, including custom-designed machine learning accelerators like AWS Inferentia and Trainium systems. The role involves verifying high-speed I/O and scale-up/out components across the SoC, taking full ownership of delivering comprehensive verification solutions at sub-system/chip levels with an emphasis on system-wide implications. This includes developing and implementing verification environments using state-of-the-art simulation methodology, creating robust test scenarios, and collaborating with design, architecture, and software teams to ensure thorough coverage of hardware-software interfaces and cross-module functionality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Experience identifying bugs in architecture, algorithms, functionality, and performance with strong overall debugging skills
• Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing
• 4+ years of design verification experience using constrained-random simulation techniques (such as UVM)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation
• Experience with C/C++ and Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience with AMBA protocols, for e.g. AHB/APB/AXI
• Experience with interconnect protocols, such as PCIe and UCIe

Responsibilities

• Own the development and execution of verification plans for components at sub-system and chip levels
• Build and implement verification environments using advanced simulation methodologies and industry-standard tools
• Define, create and execute comprehensive test scenarios covering system-level flows, critical paths, and corner cases
• Drive coverage closure and verification sign-off to ensure high-quality, tape-out ready design

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level