Design Verification Engineer – Technical Lead, Annapurna Labs – Amazon – Toronto, ON

Design Verification Engineer (Technical Lead) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a full-time position based in Toronto, ON, with a base salary ranging from $161,100 to $269,000 CAD annually. The role sits within AWS’s Custom Silicon organization, on the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team.

Day to day, you’ll architect and own end-to-end verification strategies for high-speed I/O and scale-up/out components across the SoC, working alongside design, architecture, and software teams to cover hardware-software interfaces and cross-module functionality.

About the Role: Design Verification Engineer – Technical Lead

This position covers verification at sub-system and chip level for AWS’s custom machine learning accelerators, including AWS Inferentia and Trainium systems. You’ll take full ownership of delivering comprehensive verification solutions, with strong emphasis on system-wide implications and interactions.

The role also carries a mentorship and technical leadership component: you’ll guide team members on best practices, methodology improvements, and technical problem-solving, and drive resolution of complex verification challenges hands-on.

AWS describes its team culture as one that embraces differences and is committed to inclusion, with ten employee-led affinity groups reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. The team places high value on work-life balance and offers flexibility in working hours. New members receive mentorship, and project assignments are structured to support career development.

Benefits and Salary

The base salary range for this position is $161,100 to $269,000 CAD annually, with final compensation determined by experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon’s total compensation package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to support health and well-being.

Responsibilities

The core of this role is owning and driving end-to-end verification across high-speed I/O and scale-up/out components at the sub-system and chip level. You’ll develop and implement verification environments using state-of-the-art simulation methodology, create robust test scenarios, and lead unified verification plans across multiple environments, tools, and methodologies.

• Architect and implement end-to-end verification strategies addressing system-wide implications and cross-module interactions
• Drive unified verification plans across multiple environments, tools, and methodologies
• Provide technical leadership for verification efforts, guiding architectural decisions and methodology choices
• Own the technical direction and drive resolution of complex verification challenges at sub-system and chip-level, providing hands-on guidance and effective solutions
• Mentor team members on best practices, methodology improvements, and technical problem-solving
• Collaborate closely with design, architecture, and software teams to ensure thorough coverage of hardware-software interfaces and cross-module functionality

Requirements / Skills

The posting requires a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and at least eight years of design verification experience. Several additional qualifications are listed as preferred, including experience with specific protocols, scripting languages, and verification platforms.

Candidates with hands-on experience verifying at multiple levels of logic, from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing, and those familiar with formal verification, emulation, and test-generation tools are described as ideal for this role.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (required)
• 8+ years of design verification experience using constrained-random simulation techniques such as UVM (required)
• 8+ years of testbench development experience including stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage (required)
• Verification at multiple levels of logic: from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing (preferred)
• Scripting language experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language (preferred)
• Embedded development in C/C++, or programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design (preferred)
• Multiple verification platforms including formal verification (FV), emulation, and test-generation tools (preferred)
• AMBA protocol experience, for example AHB, APB, or AXI (preferred)
• Interconnect protocol experience such as PCIe, CXL, and UCIe (preferred)

How to Apply

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