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Senior Physical Design Engineer, Hardware Compute Group

Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, US
Full-time

Senior Physical Design Engineer, Hardware Compute Group

Job ID : 2789879 Amazon.com Services LLC

The team that built the innovative Silicon IP AZ1 Neural Edge that is powering the latest generation of Echo devices is looking for a Sr.

Physical Design Engineer to continue to innovate on behalf of our customers. We are a part of Amazon Lab126 that revolutionized reading with our Kindle family of products and reimagined user experience through Echo and Alexa.

We want you to help us build on the success of our first generation of ML accelerator at edge.

Read on to fully understand what this job requires in terms of skills and experience If you are a good match, make an application.

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

As a Senior Physical Design Engineer, you will :

  • Work with RTL / logic designers to drive architectural feasibility studies, explore power-performance-area tradeoffs for physical design closure at the block and Sub System level.
  • Drive block physical implementation through synthesis, formal verification, floor planning, bus / pin planning, place and route, power / clock distribution, congestion analysis, timing closure, IR drop analysis, physical verification, ECO and sign-off.
  • Work closely with third party design and fabrication services to deliver quality first pass silicon that meets all performance, power and area goals.
  • Contribute to developing physical design methodologies.
  • Be a highly-valued member of our start-up like team through excellent collaboration and teamwork with other physical design engineers as well as with the RTL / Arch. Teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS in EE / CS
  • 7+ years of experience in ASIC Physical Design from RTL-to-GDSII in FINFET technologies such as 5nm / 7nm, 14 / 16nm
  • Expertise using CAD tools (examples : Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, or Others) to block design 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
  • Scripting experience with Tcl, Perl or Python and ability to drive physical design flow automation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • MS or PhD degree in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related field
  • Excellent communication and analytical skills
  • 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
  • 7+ years of experience in integrating IP and ability to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain
  • Thorough knowledge of device physics, custom / semi-custom implementation techniques
  • Experience solving physical design challenges across various technologies such as CPU, DDR, PCIe, fabrics etc.
  • Experience in extraction of design parameters, QOR metrics, and analyzing trends
  • Experience with DFT & DFM flows
  • Ability to provide mentorship, guidance to junior engineers and be a very effective team player.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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