ASIC Design Engineer I – RTL & SoC Focus

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 104,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Annapurna Labs is seeking an ASIC Engineer I in Austin, TX to design RTL for machine learning accelerators and contribute to full chip development from RTL to silicon. You will work on Verilog/SystemVerilog, verification environments, and collaborate across architecture, verification, and physical design teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, learning by building, and impact on silicon used by millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in EE/CE/CS with expected graduation by May 2027 or earlier.
• Experience in digital logic design and computer architecture.
• Familiarity with HDL (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL).
• Understanding of digital design concepts: combinational/sequential logic, finite state machines, timing, clocking.

Responsibilities

• Design RTL for digital logic blocks using Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Develop and run verification environments to validate design functionality.
• Support synthesis, timing analysis, and physical design flows.
• Collaborate with architecture, verification and physical design teams to take features from spec to silicon.
• Document design decisions and present work to the team.

Skills

Digital logic design

Computer architecture

HDL: Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL

Timing/clocking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Graduation by May 2027 or earlier

Focus on VLSI/digital design (preferred)

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

Python scripting

EDA tools

Job description

Amazon's Annapurna Labs is seeking an ASIC Engineer I in Austin, TX to design RTL for machine learning accelerators and contribute to full chip development from RTL to silicon. You will work on Verilog/SystemVerilog, verification environments, and collaborate across architecture, verification, and physical design teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, learning by building, and impact on silicon used by millions of customers.