Annapurna Labs (within AWS UC) designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose them to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time ago. Their custom chips, accelerators, and software stacks enable them to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before, and deliver results that help their customers change the world. They are seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to join their Power Architecture team, developing firmware algorithms for power and performance management on ML Acceleration Chips.
Requirements
- Strong firmware or embedded systems development experience
- Proficiency in C/C++ for systems programming with strong foundation in algorithms and data structures
- Experience implementing efficient algorithms in resource-constrained, real-time environments
- Experience with hardware interfaces, instrumentation, or performance monitoring
- Strong debugging skills with hardware-software systems
- Experience building developer tools or instrumentation frameworks
- Experience developing control algorithms, optimization algorithms, or state machines in firmware
Responsibilities
- Design and implement firmware algorithms for power management, thermal control, and performance optimization on ML acceleration hardware
- Develop real-time control policies and state machines that dynamically balance power, thermal, and performance constraints
- Create optimization algorithms for resource allocation, frequency/voltage scaling, and workload scheduling
- Implement efficient data structures and algorithms suitable for embedded, resource-constrained environments
- Design and implement on-device tracing and telemetry collection systems to support algorithm development and validation
- Build developer tools and data pipelines for metric collection, analysis, and visualization of algorithm behavior
- Implement low-overhead instrumentation that minimizes impact on workload performance
Other
- 3+ years of software development, or 3+ years of software development experience
- Takes strong ownership, works effectively in ambiguous situations, demonstrates a bias for action while consistently delivering impactful results
- work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
- adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions
- communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service
