Pd Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Austin, TX · Software Development

This role focuses on the design and optimization of hardware for AWS data centers, specifically for machine learning inference products like AWS Inferentia. The engineer will drive physical implementation, develop cloud infrastructure for physical design work, and improve RTL2GDS flows for performance and TAT. While the role supports ML inference hardware, the core craft is hardware/physical design engineering, not AI 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

  • Experience in machine learning applications
  • Experience with written and verbal communication and presentation
  • 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
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

What the JD emphasized

  • AWS Inferentia
  • machine learning inference product
  • high performance at low cost
  • large scale deployments
  • world-class customer experience
  • intellectually challenging position
  • thought-leaders
  • relentlessly high standards
  • improve our products' performance, quality and cost
  • changing an industry
  • ready for this challenge
  • reach beyond what is possible today
  • Electrical Engineering
  • EDA tools
  • synthesis
  • equivalency verification
  • floor planning
  • bus / pin planning
  • place and route
  • power/clock distribution
  • congestion analysis
  • timing closure
  • IR drop analysis
  • physical verification
  • ECO
  • sign-off
  • machine learning applications
  • written and verbal communication and presentation
  • CAD tools
  • integrating IP
  • specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain
  • extraction of design parameters
  • QOR metrics
  • analyzing trends
  • Amazon’s leadership principles
  • Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity