Sr. PD Methodology Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning
Summary
ASIC Physical Design Methodology Engineer defining and optimizing RTL2GDS flows and CAD methodologies for custom ML accelerator chips (Inferentia, Trainium) at Amazon's Annapurna Labs, using TCL and Python to build scalable design flows.
Amazon provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. We have data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, and customers across all industries.
Custom SoCs (System on Chip) live at the heart of Amazon Machine Learning servers. 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 AWS Inferentia, Trainium Systems (our custom designed machine learning inference and training datacenter servers). Our success depends on our world-class server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. We’re looking for an ASIC Physical Design Methodology Engineer to help us trail-blaze new technologies and architectures, while ensuring high design quality and making the right trade-offs.
Key job responsibilities
Define, develop and deploy innovative physical design and verification methodologies (RTL2GDS) for ML Accelerator chips in advanced nodes
Drive Optimizations in CAD flows/methodologies for PPA and TAT improvements
Work with EDA tool vendors to evaluate new methods, resolve bugs, improve usability.
Fine tune cloud infrastructure to improve compute and storage utilization for physical design work.
Interface directly with RTL, Physical Design, Package Design, DFT teams to improve methodologies and efficiencies.
Be able to independently troubleshoot digital tool flow usage and deploy solutions;
Fluent in scripting languages such as TCL, Python, etc. and able to build scalable and efficient flows to support parallel design developments
Create Dashboard and Central reports for project tracking and visualizing QoR/stats
A day in the life