Pd Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Cupertino, CA · Software Development

This role focuses on the design and optimization of hardware for data centers, specifically mentioning AWS Inferentia, a machine learning inference product. The responsibilities include physical design implementation, developing cloud infrastructure for physical design work, and improving RTL2GDS flows. While it mentions ML inference products, the core of the role is hardware engineering and physical design, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive 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
  2. Develop cloud infrastructure to support physical design work.
  3. Drive improvement in RTL2GDS flows/methodology for PPA and TAT improvement.
  4. Create Dashboard/central reports for project tracking and visualizing QoR/stats
  5. Interface directly with RTL, Package Design, DFT and other teams to improve methodologies and efficiencies and drive efforts to resolution.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • Block Design using EDA tools (examples: Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Others) 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)

Nice to have

  • Expertise using CAD tools (examples: Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Others) develop flows for synthesis, formal verification, floor planning, bus / pin planning, place and route, power/clock distribution, congestion analysis, timing closure, IR drop analysis, physical verification, and ECO
  • 4+ years of integrating IP and ability to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
  • Experience in extraction of design parameters, QOR metrics, and analyzing trends

What the JD emphasized

  • Block Design using EDA tools
  • Deep understanding on sign-off activities