What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal SoC Power Engineer position at Ampere?
Description
Invent the future with us.
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply. Come invent the future with us.
About The Role
Ampere Computing is looking for a qualified design engineer on power analysis, optimization, and validation, to contribute in designing our high-performance power-efficient microprocessor chipset. This person will be a part of the Silicon Engineering team and work across multiple groups to drive the power requirements, and power optimization from micro-architecture to final silicon.
Power analysis engineer is expected have strong CMOS design fundamentals and deep knowledge of power reduction techniques at various levels of abstraction. Expertise in analyzing the results given by various power estimation tools and create actionable items for power reduction. Experience in developing flows and post processing scripts to help in analysis and rollup.
What You'll Achieve
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus (i.e., variable pay tied to internal company goals), long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $152,500 and $254,000.
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week.
Benefit Highlights Include
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
Invent the future with us.
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply. Come invent the future with us.
About The Role
Ampere Computing is looking for a qualified design engineer on power analysis, optimization, and validation, to contribute in designing our high-performance power-efficient microprocessor chipset. This person will be a part of the Silicon Engineering team and work across multiple groups to drive the power requirements, and power optimization from micro-architecture to final silicon.
Power analysis engineer is expected have strong CMOS design fundamentals and deep knowledge of power reduction techniques at various levels of abstraction. Expertise in analyzing the results given by various power estimation tools and create actionable items for power reduction. Experience in developing flows and post processing scripts to help in analysis and rollup.
What You'll Achieve
- Setup power analysis environment for at the RTL-level, and gate-level for power analysis of all design blocks at the pre-silicon stage.
- Determine tests and benchmarks to run on all blocks for pre-silicon power analysis
- Develop tests in DV test environment to certain use cases interesting for power analysis and reduction
- Run and review power analysis reports at the RTL-level and gate-level on all design blocks. Identify areas of improvements at the architecture-level, RTL-level, and synthesis.
- Analyze power from activities from workloads run on emulation environment
- Determine power optimization budgets for all blocks, and setup runs to validate them as the design progresses.
- Understand the different CPU use cases, Memory and Pcie workloads.
- Work with industry standard power analysis tools like Spyglass/Power Artist/Joules/PrimePower etc.
- Maintain and improve existing power modeling and analysis flows.
- Experience with power analysis using gate-level and RTL-power analysis tools
- Good understanding of power analysis and optimization on CMOS designs
- Good understanding of clock-gating, power-gating, DVFS, etc. used for power optimization
- Good understanding of processor designs, processor work-loads.
- Solid programming and scripting skills using Perl/Python/Tcl
- Experience running power analysis on activity from emulation environment
- Electrical or Computer Engineering - Bachelors degree & 8 years of related experience; or Master's degree & 6 years; or PhD & 3 years
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus (i.e., variable pay tied to internal company goals), long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $152,500 and $254,000.
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week.
Benefit Highlights Include
- Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future.
- Unlimited Flextime and 10 paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance.
- A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
