Sr Performance Validation Engineer

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced numerous devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? The team that built the innovative SoCs AZ3 and AZ3 Pro that power the latest generation of Echo devices is looking for Senior Pre-Silicon Performance Validation Engineer to continue to innovate on behalf of our customers.

As the Senior Pre-Silicon Performance Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for validating and verifying the performance of complex silicon designs during the pre-silicon phase, ensuring that our chip designs meet stringent performance, power, and functionality requirements before tape-out across multiple process nodes.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Design and execute comprehensive validation strategies for silicon performance during the pre-silicon phase using RTL simulations, emulation platforms, and virtual prototypes.
• Develop test plans that verify performance against design specifications before tape-out.
• Create and maintain validation infrastructure including test benches, performance models, simulation environments, and automated validation frameworks.
• Develop and maintain performance models to predict silicon behavior including frequency, power consumption, and thermal characteristics.
• Create methodologies for accurate performance prediction and correlation with expected post-silicon results.
• Identify performance bottlenecks through simulation and analysis, working with design teams to implement optimization strategies before tape-out.
• Debug and Root Cause Analysis
• Establish validation methodologies and best practices that can be adopted across the organization. Create comprehensive checklists and procedures for performance validation activities.
• Work closely with architecture, RTL design, verification and emulation teams to ensure performance requirements are met throughout the pre-silicon development cycle.
• Provide early feedback to design teams on performance optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with external partners and vendors on emulation and virtual platform activities.