Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 13 hours ago
Sr. Physical Design Engineer, Annapurna Labs
Cupertino, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$143K/yr - $248K/yr
6+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) provides a reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure platform. The Sr. Physical Design Engineer will be responsible for designing and optimizing hardware for AWS Machine Learning servers, focusing on custom SoCs and ensuring high design quality while collaborating with various teams.
Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
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
Qualification
Required
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)
Scripting experience with Tcl, Perl or Python
Preferred
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
Ability to provide mentorship, guidance to junior engineers and be a very effective team player
Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
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