SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer-SiliconDevelopment

We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to help architect, build, and operate the infrastructure that accelerates silicon development at Annapurna Labs. In this role, you'll contribute to the platforms, tooling, and automation that enable our chip design teams to iterate faster, validate more thoroughly, and bring transformative silicon to market. You'll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, and electronic design automation—building systems that directly impact AWS's ability to innovate in custom silicon. This is a unique opportunity to grow your skills in infrastructure that supports chip development while working with world-class engineers across hardware, software, and operations disciplines. Key job responsibilities Customer-Focused Infrastructure Development • Partner with silicon design, verification, emulation, and software teams to understand their development workflows, pain points, and iteration cycles. • Build tooling and automation that eliminates manual toil and reduces time-to-results. • Gather continuous feedback from internal customers and rapidly iterate on solutions. Benchmark infrastructure based on silicon development workflows to provide internal customers with the optimal resources for silicon development. Own Platform Delivery and Operations • Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure and high-performance computing clusters using schedulers like Slurm. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure-as-code and service deployments with comprehensive testing and safe rollback mechanisms. • Take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency from initial design through production operation. Drive Results Through Automation and Observability • Develop monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting systems that surface actionable insights on efficiency, utilization, reliability, and cost trends. • Establish incident response processes, runbooks, and documentation that enab