Power & Thermal Simulation Intern (AI Memory Tools)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Housing stipend

Charitable giving match

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a software engineering intern for the Power & Thermal Lab in San Jose. You will contribute to power/thermal simulation tools, develop data pipelines, and collaborate with hardware and software teams on next‑generation AI memory technologies.

You will build automation, run simulations, validate against RTL data, and help scale our models, gaining mentorship and hands-on experience in a fast‑moving, interdisciplinary environment.

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
• Experience with large scale simulation or EDA/CFD adjacent tooling environments, preferred
• Familiarity with discrete event or time stepped simulation architecture, preferred
• Experience with GPU, computer architecture, AI memory, memory controllers, PHYs, or high-speed I/O, 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

C++

Python

SystemC

Transaction-level modeling

Education

Pursuing Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related major

Tools

Verilog

SystemVerilog

RTL design

EDA tools

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor is seeking a software engineering intern for the Power & Thermal Lab in San Jose. You will contribute to power/thermal simulation tools, develop data pipelines, and collaborate with hardware and software teams on next‑generation AI memory technologies.

You will build automation, run simulations, validate against RTL data, and help scale our models, gaining mentorship and hands-on experience in a fast‑moving, interdisciplinary environment.