Cloud Hardware Development Engineer I, Annapurna Labs, Early Career 2027

At Amazon our tech isnt just a tool its your playground. Our engineers work on scalable systems cloud services and customer-facing products that operate at global scale. This is an environment where you learn by building. Whether youre creating cloud-native solutions optimizing machine learning models or building products that drive experiences for millions of customers around the globe your work reaches the world fast. Youll take ownership early collaborate across teams and disciplines and grow your skills as you tackle new problems. Theres no single path forward here with a chance to explore different directions and shape your journey as you go. This is where ambition meets opportunity and where the impact of what you build helps define what comes next for customers and for you.

Whats in it for you An internship at Amazon means real responsibility from day one. Youll build test and learn alongside people who want to see you succeed while making an impact that reaches far beyond campus.

About the team
Annapurna Labs designs the custom silicon at Amazon - including Graviton (our server processors) Trainium and Inferentia (our machine learning training and inference accelerators) and the Nitro system that powers modern EC2. We own the full stack from silicon through the software that makes it work (compilers runtimes drivers and the frameworks that let customers run workloads on our hardware).

Annapurna has hardware teams across a range of systems and disciplines and we work to place you on a technical team aligned with your interests and strengths. Example teams and focus areas include:

- Board and system design for ML servers and accelerator platforms
- Firmware and low-level software development (BMC device firmware)
- Hardware bring-up validation and post-silicon testing
- High-speed interconnect and signal integrity
- System-level integration across compute networking and storage
Once you join we partner with you and our hiring managers to match you to a team where your background and interests fit best so your project is something youre genuinely excited to work on.

As a Cloud HDE I youll contribute to real hardware development work which may include:

- Supporting the design bring-up and validation of hardware systems and subsystems
- Developing firmware or low-level software that interfaces directly with hardware
- Debugging hardware-software integration issues in the lab using oscilloscopes logic analyzers and other bench equipment
- Writing and running tests to validate hardware functionality performance and reliability
- Collaborating with ASIC systems and software teams to take hardware from design through deployment
- Documenting your work and presenting findings to the team

Bachelors or Masters degree program in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or a related field with a final graduation date of May 2027 or earlier
Coursework or project experience in digital logic design and computer architecture
Familiarity with a hardware description language (Verilog SystemVerilog or VHDL)
Understanding of fundamental digital design concepts: combinational and sequential logic finite state machines timing and clocking

Bachelors or Masters degree with a focus on embedded systems computer architecture or hardware design
Hands-on experience with firmware development or bare-metal programming
Experience debugging hardware in a lab environment (oscilloscopes logic analyzers protocol analyzers)
Familiarity with communication protocols (PCIe I2C SPI UART Ethernet)
Scripting experience (Python Perl shell) for test automation
Prior internship research or lab experience in hardware development embedded systems or firmware

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: 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; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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