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[Remote] Physical Design Engineer

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services’ Annapurna Labs designs custom semiconductor products that power AWS cloud infrastructure. The Physical Design Engineer will lead end-to-end physical design activities from RTL to GDS, optimize chip macros and clusters for power, area, and performance, and help develop implementation and signoff methodologies while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

  • Daily involvement in all aspects of physical design chip development (RTL2GDS), including floorplanning, synthesis, clock tree synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, power and noise analysis, physical verification testing, and equivalence checks
  • Being actively engaged in design-backend convergence aspects and defining timing constraints
  • Taking full end-to-end responsibility for the physical design of macros and clusters level, according to specifications, under challenging constraints, with focus on optimizing power, area, and performance
  • Participation in the development of design flows, using a variety of EDA tools and vendors such as Synopsis and Cadence
  • Engaged in defining implementation and signoff methodologies

Skills

  • Understanding the entire physical design flow (“RTL to GDS”)
  • Deep understanding of sign-off activities (timing and physical verification)
  • Experience in advanced nodes technologies and Implementation tools
  • Process and technology oriented
  • Leadership and mentoring skills
  • Full-chip experience (floor plan, layout, timing)
  • Previous experience in high-speed designs, multi-voltage (low power) designs

Benefits

  • Continuous learning opportunities
  • Inclusive, supportive work environment
  • Support for workplace accommodations or adjustments during the application and hiring process, including interview or onboarding support

Company Overview

  • Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://aws.amazon.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7552 in 2026, 22803 in 2025, 21175 in 2024, 19057 in 2023, 24088 in 2022, 12233 in 2021, 14881 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.