Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer - Cloud-Scale ML

Amazon Inc.; Omaha, Northern (NE, KY); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Sr. Physical Design Engineer for Annapurna Labs to drive physical design closure and participate in the design of custom silicon for AWS data centers.

You will collaborate with RTL/Arch teams to balance power, performance and area while developing scalable methodologies. The role requires strong hands-on experience with CAD tools and sign-off activities, mentoring junior engineers, and evaluating third-party IP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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 7nm, 14/16nm, 20nm, or 28nm.
• Block Design using EDA tools 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)

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

Skills

ASIC PD

RTL-to-GDSII

EDA tools

Python scripting

Sign-off processes

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Cadence

Mentor Graphics

Synopsys

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Sr. Physical Design Engineer for Annapurna Labs to drive physical design closure and participate in the design of custom silicon for AWS data centers.

You will collaborate with RTL/Arch teams to balance power, performance and area while developing scalable methodologies. The role requires strong hands-on experience with CAD tools and sign-off activities, mentoring junior engineers, and evaluating third-party IP.