Amazon

DESCRIPTION

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. What will you help us create?

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior 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. You will be responsible for understanding the architecture of the SoCs and its software stacks, writing detailed testplans for each of its subsystems, and initially implementing those testplans on emulation and prototyping platforms. You will extend these test suites to validate silicon.

In this role you will:

• 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors 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

• Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science
• Experience with multi-media SoCs in any of the following domains: 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

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