Low-Power RTL Engineer – Battery Life & Power Analytics

Programmers.io; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking an individual contributor engineer to own and drive CPU power analysis and energy modeling activities. You will develop novel techniques, optimizers, and tooling to maximize energy efficiency and battery life for our CPU.

You will collaborate with the SoC and CPU Power Team on power projections, requirements, and workload profiling for typical applications like YouTube and Facebook.

Qualifications

• Experience in low-power fundamentals including dynamic and leakage power estimation and optimization.
• Experience with data analytics, profiling, and flow automation (Python, C, C++, Gemini).
• 3 years of industry or research experience in hardware or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive CPU architecture related power analysis and energy modeling activities.
• Develop novel power analysis techniques and optimization engines to improve battery life and energy efficiency.
• Collaborate with SoC and CPU Power Team to define power projections, requirements, and workload profiles (YouTube, Facebook, etc.).
• Perform workload analysis for battery life and define tests for power analysis and optimization.
• Perform data mining at RTL and gate level to define micro-architectural transactions for high-level power estimation.

Job description

Programmers.io is seeking an individual contributor engineer to own and drive CPU power analysis and energy modeling activities. You will develop novel techniques, optimizers, and tooling to maximize energy efficiency and battery life for our CPU.

You will collaborate with the SoC and CPU Power Team on power projections, requirements, and workload profiling for typical applications like YouTube and Facebook.