Chip Design Engineer, Graviton Chip Design Team

Amazon is hiring a Chip Design Engineer, Graviton Chip Design Team in Haifa, Israel. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Design and develop next-generation ARM-based AWS Graviton processors within the Annapurna Labs chip design team.

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Annapurna Labs, a fabless semiconductor company, was established by semiconductor industry veterans and is developing leading-edge products manufactured on state-of-the-art technologies. We are looking for talented engineers to help us develop a semiconductor platform based on a revolutionary architecture.
Take part in the development of state-of-the-art products within a disruptive system architecture. You will have the opportunity to work on the technologies that power the world's largest cloud provider, in a dynamic, open, and fast-paced environment. AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud, which powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

AWS Graviton is a family of innovative processors designed to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the world's largest leading Cloud vendor.
The Graviton is our own internal home grown solution that re-shaped EC2 offering to AWS customers, and the preferable solution for cloud compute by customers.

We are looking for talented engineers to join our Chip Design team, working on the Graviton product line. Our chip design team is in charge of defining the product's features and working on their architecture and development. Our team members collaborate with multiple teams from different disciplines such as product definition, pre and post silicon validation, physical design, software and others contributing to a full cycle of chip development from idea to mass production. Your design will be integrated into the Graviton products, an important part of the AWS data centers worldwide. This is an opportunity to have a large-scale impact.

Join our innovative team at Annapurna Labs and play a pivotal role in developing next-generation semiconductor platforms that power the world's largest cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will directly contribute to creating transformative chip technologies that shape the future of cloud computing.

Watch these videos to learn more about Annapurna Labs and the Graviton project:

* AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeUpUK0nhC0
* AWS re:Invent 2025 - AWS Graviton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haSHl2BLhm8

Key job responsibilities
Own a domain or sub-domain within an SoC - Take full responsibility for its entire lifecycle: Architecture and micro-architecture definition Writing RTL code in Verilog. Supporting the Verification and Emulation teams with test planning, debug, and results review Ensuring the final chip meets quality and reliability standards Collaborating with cross-functional teams - Partner with Product Definition, Verification, Emulation, Software, and Silicon Integration teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of experience in Chip Design
- B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
- Higher degree in a technical-related field is an advantage

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in IP integration
- Experience in a full design cycle – RTL/Verification/Synthesis and timing closure/CDC/ Lint.
- Very good communication skills
- Verilog / SystemVerilog
- Protocols: Ethernet, SATA, PCIe, DDR
- Systems with embedded processors

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Chip Design Engineer, Graviton Chip Design Team is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IL, Haifa.
The job was posted on July 27, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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