Development Testing Engineer

Job ID: 3139900 | Amazon Development Center U.Are you interested in developing high speed digital logic using the highest speeds and latest technology? Amazon is expanding AWS connectivity and is looking for help. AWS seeks a Senior FPGA Development Engineer with experience developing programmable logic on the most advanced FPGAs. They will help architect, develop, and integrate scalable FPGA systems in the AWS technology ecosystem.

If Arlington HQ (HQ2): This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities include development of custom RTL and integration with third party libraries to build end to end 100G+ solutions; owning the interface between software and hardware by developing drivers and providing software examples; leading in design meetings to plan development and review peer designs; You will work on a cross-functional team of hardware and software developers, writing programmable logic and embedded software to interact with custom hardware. You will debug RTL in simulation, synthesize and implement to meet timing and performance requirements. You will deploy RTL onto hardware targets and help debug RTL, hardware, or software issues. You will provide subject matter expertise in architectural discussions and strategic planning meetings.

We develop AWS owned hardware solutions in order to scale globally, minimize cost, and maximize value for our customers. We are a growing team of hardware, software and FPGA engineers with a dedicated product development lab in Arlington, VA.

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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering

5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience programming with at least one software programming language

7+ years of non-internship professional RTL development experience

3+ years developing programmable logic in VHDL or Verilog for FPGA SOCs

Master’s degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

7+ years of full RTL development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Experience developing programmable logic for FPGAs in VHDL or Verilog

Experience developing programmable logic for 100G Networking Systems

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.