Sr. Physical Design Engineer, 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 subsystem/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 Computer Science Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- BS 8yrs or MS 6yrs in EE/CS
- Experience scripting with Python Perl Bash or PowerShell
- 6 years in ASIC Physical Design from - RTL-to-GDSII 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 sign-off activities (timing ir/em physical verification)

- Experience in mentoring leading or managing more junior engineers
- 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/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

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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 - 183000.00 - 247600.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 159200.00 - 215300.00 USD annually