Virtual Platform Software Engineer, Annapurna Labs Machine Learning Accelerators, AWS
Amazon · Cupertino, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Platform Engineer in the software engineering function based in Cupertino, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, C, AWS. Compensation is listed at $165,200–$223,600 per year.
- Role
- Platform Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Cupertino, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 27, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAWS's Trainium and Inferentia chips power the world's largest machine learning clusters. Our team builds virtual platforms — full-system C++ and SystemC models of these custom SoCs — that let software teams start development months before silicon arrives. For Trainium3, our virtual platform enabled running a full training workload within 12 hours of first silicon. We're looking for a software engineer to build and own the models and infrastructure that make this possible. What you'll do: - Build and own functional models of SoC subsystems that integrate into our full-system virtual platform, used by firmware, driver, runtime, and application software teams - Design models for usability and performance — your customers are software engineers who need to run real workloads on your platform efficiently - Develop and improve the virtual platform infrastructure: QEMU integration, simulation performance, build and release tooling, and customer-facing documentation - Work with software teams (your primary customers) to understand their workflows, debug issues on the platform, and shape the model to maximize their productivity - Drive simulation performance improvements so the platform can handle increasingly complex workloads at scale - Contribute to model architecture decisions — choosing the right level of abstraction and fidelity for each…