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Sr. PD Methodology Engineer

Amazon· Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.
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Cupertino, Austin$213k - $287.5kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

ASIC Physical Design Methodology Engineer focused on defining and deploying innovative physical design and verification methodologies for ML accelerator chips in advanced nodes, optimizing CAD flows, and interfacing with RTL, PD, and other teams within Amazon’s Cloud-Scale Machine Learning initiatives.

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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of ASIC implementation, synthesis, STA and physical design in deep sub-micron nodes (16nm or smaller) experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • Knowledge of implementing chips with multiple power islands and power gating
  • Experience leading or solely developing methodology and scripts for physical synthesis
  • Experience low power design techniques
  • Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables
  • Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipeline implementation

Skills

Required:ASIC implementationPower integrity / power gatingScripting (TCL, Python)
Nice to have:RTL coding
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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