Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile devices like the Kindle family of products. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. Since then we have worked to produce bestselling ereaders 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 presilicon; emulation and hardware prototyping platforms as well as post silicon efforts for custom multimedia SoCs targeted for nextgeneration 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 worldclass 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 crossfunctional engineering meetings
Dive into and take ownership of crucial issues
Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
Drive analysis to determine performance targets
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.
Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science
Experience with multimedia SoCs in any of the following domains: audio speech computer vision machine learning multimedia.
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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Required Experience:
Senior IC