Amazon
C/C++ Hardware / Software Co-Design SDE, Machine Learning Acceleration Systems
$144K–$224K
Austin, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; 2+ years programming in a modern language. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop bare-metal firmware and test infrastructure for custom ASIC-based machine-learning accelerators, collaborating with hardware teams to co-design and improve system performance, quality, and cost.
What you'll do
- Co-design software and hardware architectures with architecture and design teams.
- Develop, test, debug, and optimize bare-metal C/C++ firmware and test infrastructure.
- Work with RTL designers, verification engineers, software teams, and customers; build maintainable, documented, reusable software.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 2+ years programming in a modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
Nice to have
- 3+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience in computer architecture or writing C/C++ firmware or bare-metal software.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Java, C++, C#, ASIC, RTL
AI focus
Develop firmware that drives neural network model execution on custom ML accelerator chips; no prior ML knowledge is required.
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