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Sr. Physical Design Engineer, Annapurna Labs

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Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. logoAnnapurna Labs (u.s.) · Cupertino, CA
Full-timeOn-site2mo ago
PythonAWSMachine Learning
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Requirements

  • Experience scripting with Python, Perl, Bash or PowerShell
  • BS + 8yrs or MS + 6yrs in EE/CS
  • 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
  • Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
  • 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 comprehens

Additional Information

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 ago-even 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 you'll 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; we're handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. We're 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


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