ASIC Design Engineer II, Annapurna Labs - Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration

Amazon • Cupertino, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Custom SoCs (System on Chip) live at the heart of AWS 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, our custom-designed machine learning inference datacenter server. 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 Design Engineer to help us trail-blaze new technologies and architectures, while ensuring high design quality and making the right trade-offs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Familiarity with key components such as interconnects, DMAs, Memory sub-systems, accelerator engines, debug and system level architectures
• Strong drive to innovate, explore new solutions, and contribute to the company's intellectual property through patents
• Experience with high-performance and power-efficient designs

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement high-performance, area and power-efficient RTL designs to meet project specifications and targets
• Conduct in-depth analysis of designs, microarchitectures, and architectures to optimize trade-offs between features, power consumption, performance, and area requirements
• Create microarchitectures, implement SystemVerilog RTL, and deliver synthesis and timing-clean designs with appropriate constraints
• Execute lint and clock domain crossing quality checks to ensure design integrity
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including architects, fellow designers, verification specialists, pre- and post-silicon validation teams, and synthesis, timing, and back-end experts

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level