Systems Development Engineer, Edge AI Platform Infrastructure, Hardware Compute Group

Description

Join the Edge AI team within the Silicon and Systems Group (SSG)  a Systems Development Engineer, you will own the

test and release infrastructure that validates custom AI accelerator silicon IP, kernel drivers, and ML inference software across Amazon's edge device portfolio.

This role demands someone who understands hardware IP at the register level AND can build scalable automation around it. You will design hardware-in-the-loop test frameworks that exercise AI accelerator compute cores, DMA engines, and security subsystems on physical silicon - then build the CI/CD pipelines and AI-assisted workflows that make those tests run continuously, reliably, and at scale.

You won't just run existing tests. You will create new test processes from scratch - defining what to measure, building the execution infrastructure, instrumenting coverage, and using AI to

multiply your effectiveness. When an inference failure surfaces in production, you need the IP-level understanding to trace it from a Cloud Watch metric through the kernel driver down to specific hardware accelerator behavior.

Key job responsibilities

Hardware-in-the-Loop Test

Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain automated test systems that execute on physical AI accelerator silicon across device pools. Own scheduling, device provisioning, firmware flashing, result collection, and failure triage at scale.

IP-Level Technical Depth:
Develop deep understanding of AI accelerator hardware IP (compute cores, DMA controllers, MMU/IOMMU, power domains) to write meaningful validation

that exercises real silicon behavior, not just software interfaces.

Test Process Creation:
Define and implement new test methodologies and frameworks from the ground up. Build systems that are robust to device failures, scale across multiple platform generations, and produce actionable signal.

AI-Powered Workflows:
Apply AI fundamentals to force- multiply engineering effectiveness - automated log analysis, intelligent test selection, failure pattern recognition, AI-assisted code generation, and agentic CI workflows.

Coverage & Quality Tooling:
Implement and maintain code coverage, test coverage mapping, Static Code Analysis (SCA), and Dynamic Code Analysis (DCA) integrated into the development workflow and CI gates.

CI/CD Pipeline Ownership:
Build and maintain release pipelines using AWS services (CDK, Lambda, Code Pipeline) and embedded build systems (Yocto/Bit Bake) that take validated

software from commit to production.

Production Monitoring:
Create dashboards and alerting for on-device inference metrics, crash rates, and performance regressions across the device fleet. Investigate issues

spanning hardware accelerator behavior through kernel driver to userspace.

Cross-Team

Collaboration:

Work with silicon validation, platform software, ML science, and QA teams to identify test gaps, define coverage targets, and close them systematically.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of systems development experience

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience

- Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (C or C++)

- Experience designing and executing hardware-in-the-loop or embedded system test automation

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CDK Pipelines, Code Pipeline, or equivalent)

- Understanding of hardware IP concepts: registers, DMA, interrupts, memory-mapped I/O, or similar low-level system interfaces

- Experience with code coverage tooling, static analysis, or dynamic analysis integration in CI workflows

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AI/ML tools for engineering productivity (LLM-based automation, intelligent test selection, AI-assisted analysis workflows)

- Experience with embedded Linux build systems (Yocto/Open Embedded, Buildroot)

- Knowledge of neural network accelerator architectures, DMA engines, or custom silicon validation

- Experience with AWS infrastructure (Lambda, CDK,Cloud Watch, S3, Step Functions)

- Familiarity with IOMMU, secure boot, ARM Trust Zone, or hardware security concepts

- Experience creating test infrastructure from scratch for new hardware platforms (not just extending existing frameworks)

- Track record building scalable automation that other teams adopt

- Experience with SCA tools (Coverity, CodeQL, Klocwork) and DCA tools (ASAN, TSAN, Valgrind, fuzzing)

- Exposure to ML inference runtimes or neural network compilation

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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