SoC Power Engineer

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The Role

As a passionate and dedicated member of the S3 SOC Power team, you will collaborate in next generation products for some of AMD's most important clients. You will engage in System on Chip and IP power architecture exploration, modeling, and analysis for Customer-specific markets and workloads.

THE PERSON: 

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and power management in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/time zones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Communicate closely with S3 Customers to understand unique customer market requirements, workloads, and use cases of interest to customer-specific applications.
• Work across AMD and with S3 architects to utilize the company’s power management feature set to create an optimal customer-focused solution.
• Integrate with SOC and IP Architects to understand the SOC and IP design architecture, to ensure features of interest are properly implemented and optimally architected.
• Collect data from silicon which can be used for power modeling projections
• Construct an SOC power model within AMD modeling framework that is uniquely tailored for AMD S3 customer-specific requirements.
• Analyze power modeling results and use these to drive design teams towards best practices for reducing power.
• Conduct power modeling simulations using RTL netlists for customer specific applications and workloads using AMD’s power modeling environment.
• Collaborate with power management firmware architects optimize firmware routines and optimize system power and performance.
• Optimize customer use cases in terms of absolute power and also in relative performance per watt.
  
  
  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• 7 years of related Engineering experience
• Excellent organization, and communication skills.
• Very good understanding of CPU, GPU, IO, and computer system architecture.
• Good understanding of device physics, related to power dissipation.
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Platform power measurement and prototyping.
• Working experience of UNIX/Linux operating systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with VCS-NLP simulations, Primetime PX, Power Artist, or similar EDA power simulation tool.
• Optional experience with UPF power intent is helpful.
  
  
  

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred
  
  
  

At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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