Staff Engineer - SoC Power Architecture

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks an experienced SoC Power Architect to drive power-efficient architectures for next‑generation SoCs. You will optimize dynamic power, Vmin margins, and leakage power across SOC infra with DVFS, clock gating, and power gating strategies.

The role involves hands‑on MATLAB modeling, SPICE simulations, and cross‑functional evaluation with IP blocks to ensure robust power integrity, thermal management and energy efficiency across advanced nodes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in SoC Power Architecture, Energy Management & Low-Power Design.
• Expertise in Dynamic Power Optimization, Vmin Analysis & Margining, and Leakage Reduction.
• Hands-on MATLAB Modeling, SPICE Simulations, and data crunching for power/perf KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Exploring new SoC-level power architecture & optimization features and cross-functional evaluations.
• Energy & latency sensitivity study of DVFS, clock gating, and power gating techniques.
• Analyze and optimize Vmin margins, power-performance tradeoffs, and silicon robustness.
• SOC infrastructure power optimization by studying infra utilization and use-case profiles.
• Drive leakage reduction and low-power design techniques across advanced process nodes.
• Evaluate techniques to manage voltage droops, thermal limits, and dynamic load-line management.
• Develop MATLAB models to quantify PPA KPI and support SOC features.
• SPICE simulations to back up SOC features and optimize dynamic load-line management.

Skills

SoC Power Architecture

Energy Management

Low-Power Design

DVFS

Clock Gating

Power Gating

PDN/Power Integrity

SPICE Simulations

MATLAB Modeling

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field

Tools

MATLAB

SPICE

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary:

Seeking an experienced SoC Power Architect to drive power-efficient architectures for next-generation SoCs. The role focuses on optimizing & exploring new features to optimize dynamic power , Vmin reduction, leakage power , use case energy footprint across SOC infra , CLK tree power, power modelling including lab characterization of SOC infra energy impacts & residency profiles of use-cases, data analysis

Key Responsibilities

• Exploring new SoC-level power architecture & optimization features, architecture dependencies with different IP blocks. Driving cross-functional technical evaluations of new features across multiple stakeholders
• Energy & latency sensitivity study of dynamic power reduction techniques DVFS, clock gating, power gating, Micro/Macro power collapse periods
• Analyze and optimize Vmin margins, power-performance tradeoffs, and silicon robustness.
• SOC infrastructure power optimization techniques by studying infra utilization based on use-case profiles ,
• Island use-cases flows, constraints in micro & macro -idle power optimization techniques,
• Drive leakage reduction and low-power design techniques across advanced process nodes.
• Evaluate efficient techniques to manage voltage droops, overshoots, thermal & electrical limits
• Handson experience in developing MATLAB models to quantify PPA KPI of power architecture features
• SPICE simulations to backup SOC/System level architecture features heling optimize Voltage droops, overshoots dynamic load-line management

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in SoC Power Architecture, Energy Management & Low-Power Design.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Dynamic Power Optimization
  • Vmin Analysis and Margining
  • Leakage Power Reduction
  • Low-Power Design Techniques
  • PDN/Power Integrity Analysis
  • DVFS, Clock Gating, Power Gating
• Hands-on experience with:
  • MATLAB Modeling, SPICE Simulations, Lab power/perf data crunching

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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