Senior Physical Design Engineering Lead for AI Accelerators

Amazon; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Annapurna Labs, an Amazon subsidiary, seeks a Senior Manager to lead a world-class Physical Design Engineering team, delivering multi‑billion‑transistor ML accelerator SoCs on advanced nodes. You will own strategy, drive tapeouts, and collaborate with foundries and EDA partners to achieve cutting‑edge performance.

The role requires hands-on leadership, deep RTL-to-GDSII expertise, and a track record of successful tapeouts across 2nm and beyond.

Qualifications

• 5+ years people management leading PD teams of 8+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, and organizational growth.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and develop a physical design team of 10-15 engineers.
• Own the physical design strategy and execution roadmap across Inferentia, Trainium, and future products.
• Lead technology node enablement for 2nm and beyond: PDK evaluation, reference flow development, PPA pathfinding.
• Define and deploy RTL2GDS methodologies and CAD flows; AI/ML-augmented design automation.
• Own tapeout execution: readiness reviews, foundry submittal, mask data coordination.

Skills

People management

Leadership

Physical design

RTL-to-GDSII

EDA tools

Scripting (TCL/Python)

Tapeouts

PDN design

2nm node

Tools

Fusion Compiler/ICC2

PrimeTime

StarRC

RedHawk-SC

Innovus

Tempus

Quantus

Voltus

Calibre

Job description

Annapurna Labs, an Amazon subsidiary, seeks a Senior Manager to lead a world-class Physical Design Engineering team, delivering multi‑billion‑transistor ML accelerator SoCs on advanced nodes. You will own strategy, drive tapeouts, and collaborate with foundries and EDA partners to achieve cutting‑edge performance.

The role requires hands-on leadership, deep RTL-to-GDSII expertise, and a track record of successful tapeouts across 2nm and beyond.