Sr. ASIC Packaging Engineer, Annapurna Labs

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Additionally, this role may involve exposure to and experience with Amazon's growing suite of generative AI services and other cloud computing offerings across the AWS portfolio.

Annapurna Labs (our organization within AWS UC) designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time ago—even yesterday. Our custom chips, accelerators, and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before, and deliver results that help our customers change the world.

Annapurna Labs is looking for a Sr. Packaging Engineer. As a senior member of the team, you will join a group of hardworking engineers to design and implement innovative next generation machine learning chips and servers. In this position, you will make a real impact in a dynamic, technology focused team. Your work will impact the growing field of machine learning.

You will collaborate with architects, design teams, software engineers to deliver the next generation ML chip. In this position, you will have the opportunity to be responsible for IP integration, 2.5D design, bring up, Characterization and validation.

Key job responsibilities
- Evaluation of packaging and assembly technology roadmap aligned to Annapurna product roadmap
- Engage with product architect and design teams on future products package and assembly needs
- Explore and provide recommendations on both available and future packaging and assembly technologies for Annapurna’s products
- Engage with substrate and assembly vendors on future technologies roadmap
Product development and manufacturing:
- Define the substrate and package BOM of the ICs in collaboration with Package Design team and OSATs
- Assume full ownership of mechanical and thermal performance of Annapurna ICs
- In collaboration with HW Dev team optimize mechanical vs. thermal tradeoffs.
- Ensure testability of the ICs in collaboration with Test Engineer team
- Work with Assembly, Test and Logistics to define work flows at OSATs (focus on Fab/assembly/test interfaces)
- Track assembly and substrate yields and look for ways to improve them

About the team
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- 10+ years of professional experience in similar role
Engage with product architect and design teams on future products package and assembly needs
– Explore and provide recommendations on both available and future packaging, substrate and technologies for Annapurna’s products.
– Engage with substrate and assembly vendors on future technologies roadmap.
Product development and manufacturing:
– Define the substrate and package BOM of the ICs in collaboration with Package Design team and OSATs.
- Ball maps and 3DIC C4/ubump studies
– Assume full ownership of mechanical and thermal performance of Annapurna ICs.
– In collaboration with HW Dev team optimize mechanical vs. thermal tradeoffs.
– Ensure testability of the ICs in collaboration with Test Engineer team.

- High communication skills
- Dive deep quickly into unfamiliar domains
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently on multiple issues
- Good understanding of transmission line theory, power delivery and signal integrity is desired.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Perl, Python, Tcl desired, Cadence Skill and EXCEL familiarity are helpful.
- Enthusiastic and able to work with a minimum of supervision.
- Can solve complex technical problems.

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