Principal Physical Design Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable scalable low-cost 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. We are seeking experienced Physical Design Engineers to build the next generation of our cloud server platforms. Our success depends on our world-class infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.

As a member of the Silicon Optimization Engineering Team youll be responsible for the design and optimization of hardware in our data centers. Youll provide leadership in the application of new technologies to large scale deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a world-class customer experience. This is a fast-paced intellectually challenging position and youll work with thought leaders 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 your 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 Responsibilities:
Work with RTL/logic designers to drive architectural feasibility studies explore power-performance-area tradeoffs for physical design closure
Drive block physical implementation through synthesis formal verification floor planning bus / pin planning place and route power/clock distribution congestion analysis timing closure IR drop analysis physical verification ECO and sign-off
Develop physical design methodologies
Evaluate 3rdparty IP and provide recommendations
Be a highly-valued member of our start-up like team through excellent collaboration and teamwork with other physical design engineers as well as with the RTL/Arch. teams


BS 12 yrs or MS 8yrs in EE/CS
6 years of experience in ASIC Physical Design from RTL-to-GDSII in either 7nm 14/16nm 20nm or 28nm
Expertise using CAD tools (examples: Cadence Mentor Graphics Synopsys or Others) to block design 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
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 of experience in integrating IP and ability to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
Thorough knowledge of device physics custom/semi-custom 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


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