Sr Physical Design Engineer Annapurna Labs

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable scalable lowcost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. We have data center locations in the U.S. Europe Singapore and Japan and customers across all industries.

Custom SoCs (System on Chip) live at the heart of AWS Machine Learning servers. 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 AWS Inferentia Trainium Systems (our custom designed machine learning inference and training datacenter servers). Our success depends on our worldclass server infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Were looking for an ASIC Physical Design Engineer to help us trailblaze new technologies and architectures while ensuring high design quality and making the right tradeoffs.

Key job responsibilities
Work with RTL/logic designers to drive architectural feasibility studies explore powerperformancearea tradeoffs for physical design closure
Drive IO/Core block physical implementation through synthesis floor planning bus / pin planning place and route power/clock distribution congestion analysis timing closure IR drop analysis physical verification ECO and signoff
Develop physical design methodologies
Evaluate 3rd party IP and provide recommendations
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

About the team
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BS 8yrs or MS 6yrs in EE/CS
6 years in ASIC Physical Design from RTLtoGDSII in either 7nm 14/16nm 20nm or 28nm
Block Design using EDA tools (examples: Cadence Mentor Graphics Synopsys or Others) including synthesis equivalency verification floor planning bus / pin planning place and route power/clock distribution congestion analysis timing closure IR drop analysis physical verification and ECO
Deep understanding on signoff activities (timing ir/em physical verification)
Scripting experience with Tcl Perl or Python

Expertise using CAD tools (examples: Cadence Mentor Graphics Synopsys or Others) develop flows for synthesis formal verification floor planning bus / pin planning place and route power/clock distribution congestion analysis timing closure IR drop analysis physical verification and ECO
4 years in integrating IP and ability to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
Thorough knowledge of device physics custom/semicustom implementation techniques
Experience solving physical design challenges across various technologies such as DDR PCIe fabrics etc.
Experience in extraction of design parameters QOR metrics and analyzing trends
Ability to provide mentorship guidance to junior engineers and be a very effective team player
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.