Amazon Physical Design Methodology Engineer Annapurna Labs 

United States, California, Cupertino 

218123387

As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team you’ll be responsible for the design and optimization of Hardware in our data centers including technologies such as AWS Inferentia which is a machine learning inference product designed to deliver high performance at low cost.You’ll provide leadership in the application of new technologies to large scale deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a world-class customer experience. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with thought-leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve our products' performance, quality and cost. We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.Key job responsibilities
- You will create and support innovative physical design methodology and CAD flows.
- Develop cloud infrastructure to support physical design work.
- Drive improvement in RTL2GDS flows/methodology for PPA and TAT improvement.
- Create Dashboard/central reports for project tracking and visualizing QoR/stats- Work with EDA tool vendors to evaluate new tools, solve bugs, improve usability, etc.

- Bachelors or Master’s degree in EE, CE, or CS
- Minimum of 3+ years in developing design methodology or CAD flows in synthesis, PNR, or sign-off areas for advanced technology nodes.
- Experience in writing production scripts for implementation and sign-of. tools in TCL, Perl, and/or Python
- Solid understanding of ASIC physical design, physical design flows, and methodologies including synthesis, place and route, STA, formal verification.
- Proven track record of delivering metric driven PPA flow development and support.

- Demonstrated level of expertise in PD tools such as Innovus, ICC2, FusionCompiler, STA, and Sign-Off.
- Experience in evaluating multiple vendor solutions and driving tool decisions.
- Experience in high-performance, low-power physical design, and implementation techniques with industry standard synthesis, PnR, or Signoff tools.
- Excellent programming skills in languages like Python, Perl, TCL, Shell, etc. Good understanding of algorithms with emphasis on optimizing algorithms.
- Experience with machine learning
- Excellent verbal and written communications