EMIR Engineer II, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SoCs that are used to power today’s AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a Sr. SoC EMIR Engineer, you’ll contribute to the EMIR sign-off of our SoCs and help maintain a high bar on quality.

We’re searching for an experienced EMIR engineer with a proven track record of handling challenges at scale. In this role, you’ll be working directly with architects, designers, verification engineers, power integrity engineers and physical design experts - defining best practices in power grid design, developing test cases & vectors to model demand currents accurately, modeling & signing-off EMIR taking into account board and package impact, advancing the state-of-the-art in EMIR analysis and modeling.


Key job responsibilities
* Design & analyze power grids
* Setup flows for EMIR analysis
* Run EMIR analysis for large subsystems, SoCs
* Partner with EDA tool vendors to develop / evaluate new methodologies for EMIR analysis
* Develop and maintain dashboards for EMIR rollups
* Work with designers, architects, Verification engineers and Physical Design engineers to develop vectors for IR analysis, Thermal analysis and power estimation

A day in the life
Depending on the state of the project, you may find yourself working on the following:

* Design and evaluate power grids
* Working with designers, architects and verification engineers to come up with worst-case vectors for power and IR analysis
* Root cause causes of low annotation or low switching coverage with vectors
* Develop & maintain dashboards to track EMIR status
* Root cause causes of IR drop and suggest solutions to fix
* Combine IR analysis of SoC with IR at board and package level (concurrent IR analysis)
* Do post-silicon power measurements and correlate with simulation.
* Innovate on ways to model VR, board and package impact on voltage drop more accurately.
* Partner with EDA tool vendors to develop / evaluate new methodologies for EMIR analysis



About the team
We are a start-up like team where no-one says "this is not my job" and you won't find anyone telling you to stay in your lane. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with thought-leaders in multiple technology areas. We encourage collaboration and teamwork with multiple teams and engineers including architects, RTL designers, Verification engineers, , Physical Design engineers, Emulation engineers and software engineers.