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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior UCIe PHY Expert, MLA Technology - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $159,200.0 - $215,300.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Code Review, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Lua (Scripting Language), Machine Learning, Subsystems, Information Technology, Physical Design - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000ges1py ## About the Role Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields - 7+ years of experience in Silicon development - 3+ years in SOC/IO/Subsystems Experience working closely with physical design teams to develop highly optimized ASICs with excellent power, performance and area - Good understanding of UCIe at the PHY and controller level - Good knowledge of UCIe training, timing parameters and/or controller features - Support the physical design team with IP integration, 2.5D packaging, clocking and timing constraints - Ability to create scripts (lua, bash, python, etc.) to accomplish functional day to day tasks. - Drive cross-functional triage effort on functional and performance issues - Take the leadership role in post-silicon bring-up of UCIe-Advanced or Standard - Perform system-level debug and root-cause analysis through bring-up, characterization, validation and production phases Preferred Qualifications - MS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field - Strong Firmware development skills within embedded environments - Good leadership skills and ability to multi-task and thrive in a dynamic environment - Knowledge of UCIe phy and controller related protocols - Good communication skills and interpersonal skills ## Description As a senior member of the team, you will join a mixed group of hardware and software engineers working to design, integrate, and innovate the next generation of machine learning chips into Trainium servers. In this position it is expected that you will: * Collaborate with architects, design teams, and software engineers on our next generation ML chips * Support on-going debug and operations of previous ML chips within manufacturing and the data center * Dive deep into IP integration, packaging, silicon bring up, characterization, and validation of our UCIe subsystems * Independently develop the scripts you need to execute and collaborate with software engineers as your needs scale A day in the life A day in the life of a CHDE focused on UCIe on the MLA Technology team focuses on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, prototyping solutions, and leading data collection at scale to improve our products. We start each day looking at our fleet, reviewing dashboards for emergent issues impacting our customers, partnering with other teams to drive complex debugs as it pertains to UCIe and associated SoC subsystems. We then look forward to the future technologies being developed and how we can best focus our efforts to help improve them and ensure a high quality product on behalf of our customers. Our team members touch everything from electrical simulations, to hardware qualification on test benches, to software driven data center metrics, with a broad range of tasks across multiple skillsets where you can help improve the reliability and performance of our products. You help the team evolve by actively participating in design discussions, team planning, code reviews, tickets/metric reviews, and data center capacity initiatives. 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