DFT Verification Engineer, Graviton Server

Amazon; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Amazon as a DFT Engineer in the AWS unit, focusing on innovative chip design and verification. Work alongside experts to create cutting-edge technologies for AWS while enjoying support for your career growth and work-life balance in a dynamic environment. Your role will impact the future of cloud computing and semiconductor design, and you will receive training in industry-leading methods.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Chip Design/DFT/Design Verification.
• BSc degree from leading universities is required.
• Skills in Verilog and System Verilog preferred.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in architecture definition and logic design.
• Verification of next-generation products based on cutting-edge technology.
• Participation in the entire device lifecycle from definition to mass production.

Skills

Chip Design

DFT

Design Verification

Education

BSc degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Verilog

System Verilog

UVM methodology

Scripting

Job description

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Annapurna Labs (our organization within AWS UC) 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.

AWS Neuron is the complete software stack for the AWS Inferentia and Trainium cloud-scale machine learning accelerators and the Trn1 and Inf1 servers that use them. This role is for a senior software engineer in the Machine Learning Applications (ML Apps) team for AWS Neuron. This role is responsible for development, enablement and performance tuning of a wide variety of ML model families, including massive scale large language models like GPT2, GPT3 and beyond, as well as stable diffusion, Vision Transformers and many more.

The ML Apps team works side by side with chip architects, compiler engineers and runtime engineers to create , build and tune distributed training solutions with Trn1. Experience training these large models using Python is a must. FSDP, Deepspeed and other distributed training libraries are central to this and extending all of this for the Neuron based system is key.



Key job responsibilities
We are looking for experience engineer to join the DFT verification team and help develop our next generation products based on a cutting-edge technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the technologies that power the world’s largest Cloud provider - AWS (Amazon Web Services), within a dynamic, open, and fast-paced environment. At Amazon, DFT Engineer is a multi-faceted position, that involves architecture definition, logic design, verification, chip bring-up and more. As a DFT engineer, you will impact and see the device through its entire life cycle, from definition stage to mass production.

In this position you will have a unique opportunity to take part in the upcoming verification training program, where you will learn the industry cutting edge verification methods from our technical experts and team leaders:
SystemVerilog & UVM
SystemC and Arch Modeling
Emulation and System Level verification
Formal and Assertion based verification



A day in the life
Annapurna Labs is a fabless semiconductor company established by semiconductor industry veterans and is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are developing leading edge products widely used in the Amazon cloud. Annapurna Labs is like a big start-up in AWS. We develop using cutting-edge technologies, work with amazingly talented engineers, innovate and truly shape the future. Working for Annapurna Labs is thrilling, fast-paced, and a constant learning experience.

Our offices are located in Sarona/Tel Aviv and Matam/Haifa.

Design-for-Test (DFT) is a multi-disciplinary field of growing complexity that involves close cooperation and mutual work with multiple VLSI engineering groups, including architecture, frontend design, verification, physical implementation, signal integrity, test, reliability and more. DFT engineers participate in the whole chip design process from start to end, defining our future products, implementing them and debugging real devices in Amazon fleet. They hold a lot of responsibility and are a major part of our success.
One of our main products is the Graviton ARM based server.
If you are interested in hearing more, you are welcome to watch the following videos:
Graviton3 presented during AWS re:Invent conference:
AWS re:Invent 2021 – Keynote with Peter DeSantis (around minute 37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NEQbFLtDmg
There is also in depth session about AWS Graviton:
AWS re:Invent 2022 - AWS Graviton deep dive: The best price performance for AWS workloads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZkO-KelLnk
And all about AWS building its own chips (these are the products done by Annapurna Labs team):
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Silicon innovation at AWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6EMdeuq_s8

About the team
About AWS

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BSc degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering from leading universities.
- 3+ years of experience in Chip Design/ DFT/ Design Verification

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Verilog, System Verilog
- UVM methodology
- Scripting skills

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