ASIC Power Engineer, ML Accelerators

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an ASIC Power Engineer for ML accelerators in Sunnyvale to shape the power efficiency of TPUs. You will verify complex digital designs, focusing on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML systems, and drive power models from design through post-silicon stages.

In this role you will define and deploy power optimization techniques, contribute to power management architectures, and work with software and system teams to meet aggressive power goals for data-center

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, CS, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in silicon design or architecture (logic design, power architecture, performance, or SoC design).
• Experience with power design, power modeling, power architecture, or power reduction methodologies/techniques.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design power modeling and drive convergence to power goals.
• Investigate, specify, and deploy architectural and microarchitectural power optimization techniques.
• Define best practices and methodologies to achieve low-power designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional software and system teams to create novel power management architectures to meet power goals.

Skills

Power design

Power modeling

Power architecture

DVFS knowledge

SoC design

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Job description

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• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in silicon design or architecture (e.g., logic design, power architecture, performance, or SoC design).
• Experience with power design, power modeling, power architecture, or power reduction methodologies/techniques.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
• Experience defining and implementing chip-wide power management architectures and designs.
• Experience in power modeling, measurement, and correlation across the pre- and post-silicon phases.
• Understanding of modern power and thermal management techniques at both the silicon and system levels (including Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), turboing, thermal management, and system-level tradeoffs).
• Ability to solve open-ended power and performance problems under ambiguity.

About the job

In this role, you’ll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting‑edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers Google's most demanding AI/ML applications. You’ll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.

As part of the TPU power design team, you will play a pivotal part in improving the power efficiency of our TPUs. You will drive power efficiency for our TPU designs, starting from building power models to proposing novel power optimization techniques. You would possess a deep background in modeling and optimizing chip power, as well as have an understanding of system level power considerations and tradeoffs. As an ASIC Design Engineer, you will be part of a team developing ASICs used to accelerate computation in data centers. You will have dynamic, multi-faceted responsibilities in areas such as project definition, design, and implementation. You will participate in the design, architecture, documentation, and implementation of the next generation of data center accelerators.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting‑edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world‑leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Contribute to design power modeling and drive convergence to power goals.
• Investigate, specify, and deploy architectural and microarchitectural power optimization techniques.
• Define best practices and methodologies to achieve low-power designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional software and system teams to create novel power management architectures to meet power goals.

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