Sr. Circuit Design & Analysis Engineer, Annapurna Labs, Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Circuit Design & Analysis Engineer, where you'll innovate at the forefront of AI workloads. In this dynamic role, you will design and implement custom circuits, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive improvements in silicon performance. With a culture that values work-life balance and diverse experiences, you'll find ample opportunities for mentorship and career growth. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a cutting-edge environment that embraces innovation and inclusivity.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Employee discounts

Mentorship programs

Career advancement resources

Work-life balance initiatives

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in circuit design and analysis.
• Strong expertise in thermal and power analysis tools.
• Proven track record in custom circuit design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement custom cells and IP for AWS products.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve silicon yield and performance.
• Develop scripts to automate analysis and collect reports.

Skills

Circuit Design & Analysis

Custom Circuit Design

Thermal & Power Analysis

Scripting (Tcl, Perl, Python)

ASIC Physical Design

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

SPICE

SPECTRE

Ansys Redhawk_SC-ET

Cadence Voltus

Cadence Celsius

Oscilloscopes

Logic Analyzers

Job description

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.

Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SOCs that are used to power today's AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a Circuit & Design Analysis engineer, you'll collaborate with multiple teams to drive improvements in silicon yield & performance - it's still Day One here at Amazon!

We're searching for an experienced Circuit Design & Analysis engineer with a background in custom circuit design & analysis, system level thermal & power analysis with a proven track record of handling challenges at scale. In this role, you'll be working directly with product engineers, signal & power integrity engineers and physical design experts - defining best practices, driving correlation of pre-silicon simulation of thermal & power integrity to post silicon analysis and developing custom circuits that help raise the bar in implementing state-of-the-art machine learning hardware.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement custom cells / IP.
- Develop & run characterization flows for custom cells / IP developed.
- Own integration & post-silicon qualification of IPs like PLL, PCIE, UCIE, HBM, sensors/monitors.
- Develop scripts to automate running analysis and collect reports.
- Develop test-plan and perform measurements in the lab to correlate with simulation data.
- Be a highly-valued member of our start-up like team through excellent collaboration and teamwork with other physical design engineers, product engineers, hardware engineers as well as with the RTL/Arch. teams.

A day in the life
Depending on the state of the project, you may find yourself working on the following:

- Evaluate IPs (like sensors, process monitors) from a 3rd party
- Develop an characterize custom IPs like ganged buffers, custom logic cells for specialized operations (like MACs)
- Work with designers and architects to identify pain-points and areas where custom solutions can improve PPAS
- Do post-silicon quality checks for key IP like PLLs, UCIE/PCIE, HBM
- Do post-silicon power measurements of jitter, sensor calibration, power and correlate with simulation

About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Utility Computing (UC)
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS + 8yrs or MS + 6yrs or PhD + 3yr in EE/CS
- Expertise on circuit level analysis using tools like SPICE / SPECTRE
- Expertise in interconnect & transistor fundamentals in deep sub-micron processes
- Understanding of ASIC Physical Design from RTL-to-GDSII
- Understanding of other sign-off activities (ir/em, physical verification, timing closure, DFT)
- 3+ years of scripting experience with Tcl, Perl or Python

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in advanced nodes - 5nm or below
- Expertise with Thermal & IR analysis tools (examples: Ansys Redhawk_SC-ET, Cadence Voltus & Celsius)
- Experience with timing of IO interfaces like DDR, HBM, PCIe, Die-to-Die etc
- Experience with using lab equipement like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
- Leadership and mentoring skills
- Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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