Power & Thermal Simulation Software Intern

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Support

Housing stipend

Charitable giving match

Emotional wellness

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor is offering an internship as a Power‑Thermal Simulation Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will contribute to the development of a power and thermal simulator tool, learn the data pipeline, and gain end‑to‑end project experience with a small, fast‑moving team.

You will work on research and product teams across multiple projects, including end‑to‑end simulation, regression testing, and data‑pipeline management, under mentorship, in an environment where hardware,

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.
• 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.
• Manage time‑indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains.
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

C++

Python

Bash

SystemC

Transaction‑level modeling

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

GPU/AI memory

Discrete event simulation

CAD/EDA tooling

Education

Masters or PhD in CS/EC Engineering

Tools

SystemC

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor is offering an internship as a Power‑Thermal Simulation Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will contribute to the development of a power and thermal simulator tool, learn the data pipeline, and gain end‑to‑end project experience with a small, fast‑moving team.

You will work on research and product teams across multiple projects, including end‑to‑end simulation, regression testing, and data‑pipeline management, under mentorship, in an environment where hardware,