Senior CAD Engineer, ASIC Development Infrastructure, RTL Design

Amazon.com Inc

Boise, ID

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), ASIC Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), Cadence, Consumer Electronics, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cross-Functional, DRC Flows, Design Flows, Design Verification, Documentation, Firefighting, Identify Issues, Kindle, LVS Flows, Licensing, Mentoring, Place and Route, RTL Design, Research & Development (R&D), Sales, Semiconductors, Simulation, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Timing Verification
LOCATION
Boise, ID
POSTED
30+ days ago

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role: As a Senior Computer Aided Design (CAD) Engineer, you will be part of an advanced ASIC development team that is creating the semiconductor designs which will power millions of new Amazon devices. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Design, Verification, Physical Design, and Emulation teams to build and maintain a leading-edge ASIC development infrastructure that enables and accelerates their work.

Key Job Responsibilities:

  • Design and maintain ASIC development flows spanning RTL-to-GDSII, including RTL generation, simulation, synthesis, place & route, timing analysis, DRC/LVS, and sign-off
  • Deploy and configure EDA tools from vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor/Siemens, etc.) across compute infrastructure
  • Develop automation and CI/CD/regression to streamline design tasks, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency
  • Troubleshoot tool issues and work with vendors to resolve bugs, performance bottlenecks, or licensing problems
  • Work with IT teams to optimize compute and storage strategies to enhance engineering efficiency
  • Create and maintain documentation for tool usage, flow methodologies, and best practices
  • Utilization of AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting and monitoring of design flows

A Day in the Life

Your day starts by reviewing overnight build results and addressing any tool flow failures that blocked design teams. Youll troubleshoot issues, working directly with EDA vendors when needed to resolve bugs or performance bottlenecks. Mid-morning, you might deploy an updated version of a critical tool across the compute infrastructure, then spend time developing automation to streamline repetitive tasks. Afternoons often involve collaborating with Design, Verification, and Physical Design teams to optimize their workflows, and working with the Design Technology team on large-scale tool objectives. Throughout the day, youll balance immediate firefighting with longer-term infrastructure improvements-your ultimate goal is making a large team of chip design engineers more efficient through seamless tool flows that power millions of Amazon devices.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles