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We are seeking an exceptional an exceptional leader to build and lead our next-generation internal Analog IP design team. This is a unique opportunity to create a world-class analog design center from the ground up, developing the critical IP blocks that power all of our custom silicon products, including Graviton (server CPUs) and Nitro (networking/security accelerators).

Key job responsibilities
Build the team: Recruit, hire, and develop a world-class analog/mixed-signal design team from the ground up. Define the org structure, roles, and growth path.

Define the IP strategy: Own the analog IP roadmap across all Annapurna Labs products. Evaluate build vs. buy decisions and drive internal capability development.

Drive execution: Lead the full design cycle from architecture through silicon validation - spec, schematic, layout, simulation, tapeout, and bring-up.

Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with SoC architecture, digital design, physical design, DFT, packaging, and system teams to integrate analog IP seamlessly.

Set technical direction: Define design methodologies, flows, and best practices. Evaluate and select EDA tools, PDKs, and foundry processes.

Innovate at scale: Develop IP that is reusable, portable across process nodes, and designed to meet the performance, power, and area (PPA) needs of multiple products simultaneously.

Engage with leadership: Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to senior leadership. Influence the overall silicon roadmap with analog capabilities and constraints.

Required SoC Vision Architect, Silicon, Cloud
About the job
In this role, youll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers our most demanding AI/ML applications. Youll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.
As a SoC Vision Architect in our Silicon team, you will be at the heart of defining the hardware that powers the next-generation of our products. You will bridge the gap between Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and physical silicon, architecting the Image Signal Processor (ISP), CODECS and the pixel data path. You will deliver unparalleled image quality while staying within the tight Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) constraints. You will participate in the concept, architecture, documentation, and implementation of a new product.
Responsibilities
Define a flexible imaging pipeline hardware architecture, from the sensor interface (e.g., Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI)) through the ISP, the encoder/decoder, scaling and memory output.
Partner with our research to transform advanced computational imaging algorithms into high-efficiency hardware logic.
Conduct trade-off analyses between power, performance, and silicon area to meet thermal envelopes and current limitations.
Influence external executive vendor roadmaps, ensuring deep co-optimization between their future products and our custom silicon.
Lead collaboration across Architecture, Register-Transfer Level (RTL), Physical Design and Validation teams.

Rק/וןרקג Power and Signal Integrity Engineer, PhD Graduate
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
As a Power and Signal Integrity Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and characterization of signal and power integrity of our IC designs. You will design the external electrical interfaces of the device, from their Signal/Power-integrity and electrical usage perspectives and set up methodologies, perform simulations, silicon characterization and correlations to ensure our IC designs meet systems design budgets and achieve the highest performance. You will work with systems architects, ASIC design, systems engineers, and partner cross-functionally with teams and external vendors/partners.
Responsibilities
Generate precise electrical models (e.g., S-parameters, SPICE models) for components such as packages, PCBs, and connectors for use in simulations.
Simulate high speed interface electrical behavior using HSPICE or other circuit simulators.
Execute lab measurements utilizing test equipment like oscilloscopes, Vector Network Analyzers (VNA), Time Domain Reflectometers (TDR), spectrum analyzers to validate simulation outcomes and debug signal and power-related issues on silicon prototypes and boards.
Establish design rules and guidelines for optimal signal/power integrity during PCB and package layout, ensuring high production yield and reliability.
Document design specifications, analysis results, and validation reports to ensure compliance with standards and for future reference, while collaborating extensively with cross-functional teams, including ASIC architects, digital/analog designers, physical design/layout engineers, and system engineers.

Required Senior Silicon Physical Design Engineer
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
As a SoC Physical Design Engineer, you will collaborate with functional design, Design for Testing (DFT), architecture, and packaging engineers. In this role, you will solve technical problems with innovative micro-architecture and practical logic circuits solutions, while evaluating design options with optimized performance, power, and area in mind.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining whats possible. We empower our customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Cloud customers, and billions of users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind our groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Cloud, Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
Use problem-solving and simulation techniques to ensure performance, power, and area (PPA) are within defined requirements.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug failures or performance shortfalls and meet program goals in lab or simulation.
Design chips, chip-subsystems, or partitions within subsystems from synthesis through place and route, and sign off convergence, ensuring that the design meets the architecture goals of power, performance, and area.
Develop, validate, and improve Electronic Design Automation (EDA) methodology for a specialized sign off or implementation domain to enable cross-functional teams to build and deliver blocks that are correct by construction and ease convergence efforts.

we're seeking a highly skilled Physical Design CAD Engineer specializing in CAD Extraction to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.

This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful technical ownership in a new site, implementing the parasitic extraction (PEX) methodologies and flows for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters. As a foundational member of the team, you will be responsible for the accuracy and efficiency of our extraction environment, ensuring that our high-speed designs are modeled with the highest precision from RTL to GDSII.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, qualify, and maintain automated RC extraction flows for high-performance AI SoCs
Own the setup and validation of foundry technology files (e.g., StarRC/Quantus techfiles, TLU+, ITF) across various process corners
Perform correlation studies between different extraction tools and 3D field solvers (e.g., Raphael, QuickCap) to ensure modeling accuracy
Collaborate closely with the Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) teams to provide accurate parasitic data for critical high-speed nets and power grids
Implement automated scripts (Tcl/Python) to streamline extraction regressions, data parsing, and PEX-to-STA (Static Timing Analysis) handoffs
Analyze the impact of layout effects (LDE) and parasitics on timing and power, providing feedback to the implementation team to optimize PPA
Interface with EDA vendors and foundries to resolve extraction tool bugs and methodology gaps related to advanced nodes (5nm/3nm)

Required RTL Design Engineer, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
In this role, you will use Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design experience to be part of a team that develops complex ASIC System-on-Chip (SoC) intellectual property from proof-of-concept to production. This includes creating IP Level microarchitecture definitions, Register-Transfer Level (RTL) coding and all RTL quality checks. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to design flow and methodologies, including design generation automation. You will collaborate with members of architecture, software, verification, power, timing, synthesis design for testing etc. You will develop/define design options for performance, power and area.
Responsibilities
Define the IP microarchitecture level design document such as interface protocol, block diagram, transaction flow, pipeline etc.
Perform RTL development (coding and debug in Verilog, SystemVerilog).
Conduct function/performance simulation debug and Lint/CDC/FV/UPF checks.
Engage in synthesis, timing/power closure, and ASIC silicon bring-up.
Contribute to verification test plan and coverage analysis of block and SoC-level.

Required Design Team Manager, Servers, Cloud
About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of our direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
As a Design Team Manager within the Server Chip Design team, you will use your ASIC design experience to be part of a team that creates the SoC VLSI design cycle from start to finish. You will collaborate closely with design and verification engineers in active projects, creating architecture definitions with RTL coding, and running block level simulations.
In this role, you will oversee the Intellectual Property (IP) and SoC VLSI design cycle from architecture to production. You will own and manage IP, subsystems and SoC development, leading a group of designers and design tech leads. You will be responsible for mentoring and developing team members and tech leads, driving improvements in leadership, technical execution, and design flows.
Responsibilities
Manage a team of tech leads and designers. Develop and mentor team members, and communicate and co-work with multi-disciplined and multi-site teams.
Lead design activities at IPs, subsystems, and System-on-Chips (SoCs).
Plan, execute, track progress, assure quality, and report status of the assigned activity.
Work closely with internal customers and support multiple activities and deliverables.
Assure and manage deliverables quality at all RTL design categories including reviews, static checks, design for physical design, power, etc.

we're seeking a highly skilled Chip Top Physical Design Engineer focusing on implementation to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.
If you thrive on solving complex, unnamed challenges in deep-submicron processes, your place is with us.

As a Physical Design Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of our PD Team in the Israel R&D center. You will execute the physical design of the SoC Top level for chips that drive the worlds largest AI clusters. You will be deeply involved in all PD disciplines of the chip, driving the tape-out (T.O.) GDS to meet strict signoff criteria (Timing, LVS, EMIR, DRC, PV, etc.), ensuring our silicon meets the extreme performance, power, and area (PPA) targets required for AI scale.

Key Responsibilities


Execute SoC Top-level physical design and actively drive full-chip convergence
Perform Top-Level physical implementation, including floor-planning, Place & Route (P&R), Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Power/Clock distribution, Power Integrity, and Timing/Physical signoff
Work closely with the Architecture, Design, DFT, and Product teams to achieve optimal Power, Performance, and Area (PPA). This involves participating in feasibility studies for new architectures and optimizing runs to ensure the best Quality of Results (QoR)
Resolve complex signal integrity, thermal, and power challenges inherent in high-speed connectivity silicon
Collaborate closely with the Package team on Bump-map-to-Ballout design, taking all signal integrity aspects into consideration

Required Power and Signal Integrity Engineer
About the job
As a Power and Signal Integrity Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and characterization of signal and power integrity of our IC designs. You will design the external electrical interfaces of the device, from their Signal/Power-integrity and electrical usage perspectives.
You'll set up methodologies, perform simulations, silicon characterization and correlations to ensure our IC designs meet systems design budgets and achieve the highest performance. You will work with systems architects, ASIC design, systems engineers, and partner cross-functionally with teams and external vendors/partners.
Responsibilities
Design and optimize power distribution networks (PDN) across chip, package, and board levels. This includes managing power/ground planes, decoupling capacitors, and power gating strategies.
Conduct both pre-layout and post-layout power integrity simulations to analyze power and ground noise (SSN/SSO), voltage drops (IR drop), and electromagnetic interference (EMI).
Implement and verify low-power design methodologies, such as multi-voltage designs and clock gating, using power intent formats like UPF/CPF.
Generate precise electrical models (e.g., S-parameters, SPICE models) for components such as packages, PCBs, and connectors for use in simulations.
Execute lab measurements utilizing test equipment like oscilloscopes, Vector Network Analyzers (VNA), Time Domain Reflectometers (TDR), Spectrum analyzers to validate simulation outcomes and debug signal and power-related issues on silicon prototypes and boards.

we're seeking a visionary Package Design Engineer to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, Driving the physical implementation strategy for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters.

As a Package Design Engineer, you will be a core technical contributor in the development of advanced IC packaging solutions for high-performance connectivity silicon. You will execute the package flow, design, and qualification from concept through production, working closely with silicon, signal integrity, power integrity, mechanical, manufacturing, and external OSAT partners. You will be responsible for implementing package technologies that meet aggressive electrical, thermal, mechanical, and cost targets, enabling products to operate reliably in the worlds most demanding AI and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities


Execute end-to-end IC package design, from early feasibility and detailed design through to qualification and high-volume manufacturing
Implement package architecture and utilize advanced technologies (organic substrates, advanced laminate, interposers, multi-die/chiplet packaging, CoWoS - 2.5D/3D integration)
Drive signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), and thermal considerations at the package level for high-speed, high-power devices
Perform package layout, substrate routing, bump/ball maps, stack-ups, materials selection, and apply mechanical constraints
Collaborate closely with silicon design, SerDes, system, SI/PI, and reliability teams to optimize overall product performance
Interface directly with OSATs, substrate vendors, and manufacturing partners to ensure design-for-manufacturability (DFM), yield, and cost targets are met
Conduct package-related risk assessments, failure analysis, and corrective actions during bring-up and production ramp
Support NPI, qualification, and product sustainment activities, including vendor technical reviews