Physical Design Engineer - Static Timing Analysis Annapurna Labs Cloud Scale Machine Learning

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

As a member of the CloudScale Machine Learning Acceleration team youll be responsible for the design and optimization of Hardware in our data centers including technologies such as AWS Inferentia which is a machine learning inference product designed to deliver high performance at low cost.

Youll provide leadership in the application of new technologies to large scale deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a worldclass customer experience. This is a fastpaced intellectually challenging position and youll work with thoughtleaders in multiple technology areas. Youll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and youll be constantly looking for ways to improve our products performance quality and cost. Were changing an industry and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Key job responsibilities

Develop & maintain flows for block and fullchip level static timing analysis
Write debug & validate timing constraints for blocks and fullchip.
Run Static Timing Analysis and give frequent feedback to team members and leads.
Provide guidance on how to fix timing issues (generate ECOs fix constraint issues).
Develop scripts to automate running timing analysis and generate reports.
Be a highlyvalued member of our startup like team through excellent collaboration and teamwork with other physical design engineers as well as with the RTL/Arch. teams


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Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (IoT) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

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BS 6yrs or MS 4yrs or PhD 2yr in EE/CS
Expertise in timing analysis fundamentals
1 years doing Static Timing Analysis
1 years with timing constraint development
Timing Analysis using EDA tools (examples: PrimeTime Tempus or others)
Understanding of ASIC Physical Design from RTLtoGDSII
Understanding of other signoff activities (ir/em physical verification DFT)
1 years of scripting experience with Tcl Perl or Python

Expertise developing flows using STA tools (examples: PrimeTime Tempus or others)
Expertise in ECO flows (examples: PTDMSA TempusECO Tweaker or others)
Experience in advanced nodes 16nm or below
Expertise in parasitic extraction tools (examples: STARRC Quantus or others)
Expertise on circuit level analysis using tools like SPICE / SPECTRE
Experience with timing of IO interfaces like DDR HBM PCIe DietoDie etc.
Leadership and mentoring skills
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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