Senior Virtual Platform Software Engineer

Amazon

Austin, TX Full-time 3/31/2026 $168.1k - $261.5k per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience

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•FY 2025

Job Description

This role involves building functional models and virtual platforms for AWS's custom silicon chips, specifically focusing on machine learning applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering background, experience in chip architecture, and a passion for improving usability and performance for software teams.

Requirements

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of full software development life cycle experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
7+ years of non-internship professional experience writing functional or performance models
Experience programming with C++ and/or SystemC
Knowledge of SoC, CPU, GPU, and/or ASIC architecture and micro-architecture
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience analyzing data and applying best practices to assess performance drivers
Experience developing models that integrate with QEMU
Experience developing and calibrating performance models for custom silicon chips
Experience with PyTest and GoogleTest
Familiarity with modern C++ (11, 14, etc.)
Experience in multi-threaded programming
Experience with machine learning accelerator hardware and/or software

Responsibilities

Build and own functional models of SoC subsystems that integrate into our full-system virtual platform
Design models for usability and performance
Develop and improve the virtual platform infrastructure
Work with software teams to understand their workflows and debug issues
Drive simulation performance improvements
Contribute to model architecture decisions
Own a product that software teams across AWS depend on
Tackle engineering challenges like full-system simulation and performance optimization

Benefits

Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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