Physical Design Engineer II, Annapurna Labs

Annapurna Labs designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time agoeven yesterday. Our custom chips accelerators and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before and deliver results that help our customers change the world.

Custom SoCs (System on Chip) live at the heart of AWS Machine Learning servers. As a member of the Cloud-Scale 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 world-class server infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Were looking for an ASIC Physical Design Engineer to help us trail-blaze new technologies and architectures while ensuring high design quality and making the right trade-offs.

Key job responsibilities
Work with RTL/logic designers to drive architectural feasibility studies explore power-performance-area 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 sign-off

Develop physical design methodologies

Evaluate 3rd party 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

- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Experience identifying bugs in architecture algorithms functionality and performance with strong overall debugging skills
- Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing

- Masters degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field
- Experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking
- Experience with ARM and various DSP ISAs
- Experience with current and upcoming RF standards in cellular (4G/5G NR) WiMAX 802.11ad microwave backhaul or related broadband wireless standards
- Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Cupertino - 157300.00 - 212800.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually