Power & Thermal Simulation Engineer Intern

Samsung Electronics America; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Support

Housing Stipend

Charitable Matching

Emotional Wellness

Onsite Gym

Flexible Environment

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor invites software engineering interns to join the Power & Thermal Lab in San Jose. You will build automation pipelines, implement trace-driven simulators, and generate power maps while collaborating with hardware, software, and thermal experts on next‑generation AI memory technologies.

You will work on real projects, receive mentorship, and contribute to end-to-end simulation, data pipelines, and validation across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Pursuing Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related major.
• Must have at least 1 academic quarter/semester remaining
• C++, scripting workflows in Python or Bash, SystemC and/or transaction-level modeling.
• Systems-level software-engineering skills.
• RTL design, synthesis and analysis research and/or experience (Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC), preferred

Responsibilities

• Build automation pipelines for simulation runs, regression testing, and result tracking.
• Implement and optimize a trace-driven power-thermal simulation engines.
• Generate transient power maps, perform spatiotemporal hotspot analysis, and interface with reduced-order/CFD-calibrated thermal solvers.
• Develop high-fidelity, advanced RTL- SystemC-, and C-based power macromodels for AI memory component IPs using analytical modeling, LUT, FSM, NN, and their hybrid.
• Extract activity-, value-, and state-dependent power features from C/SystemC/RTL simulations.
• Define power-relevant functional states (transaction/state-based abstraction).
• Calibrate models using synthesis-assisted anchors and validate against RTL/gate-level and silicon data.
• Integrate IP-level power macromodels into system-level simulations.
• Manage time-indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains.
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Simulation Infrastructure

UI Development

Power & Thermal Engine

Education

Masters/PhD in CS/EE

Tools

C++

Python/Bash

SystemC/TLM

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor invites software engineering interns to join the Power & Thermal Lab in San Jose. You will build automation pipelines, implement trace-driven simulators, and generate power maps while collaborating with hardware, software, and thermal experts on next‑generation AI memory technologies.

You will work on real projects, receive mentorship, and contribute to end-to-end simulation, data pipelines, and validation across multiple domains.