Principal Power Architect for AI-CPU & SoC

Ampere Computing LLC; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Income protection

401K retirement plan

Unlimited Flextime

10+ paid holidays

Healthy snacks

Espresso and drinks

Job summary

Ampere Computing LLC is seeking a Principal Power Architect to drive power modeling, analysis, and optimization across CPU, AI accelerator, memory, and interconnect designs. This role spans architecture, RTL, firmware, and silicon to turn workload and power data into actionable decisions.

You will develop power models, run RTL/gate-level analyses, characterize workloads, and push power-management techniques such as DVFS, clock gating, and retention.

Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor power analysis, modeling, optimization, or silicon validation.
• Strong CMOS power fundamentals and power-reduction techniques.
• Knowledge of CPU, AI accelerator, memory, I/O, interconnect workloads.
• Experience with RTL and gate-level power-analysis tools; familiarity with Spyglass, Power Artist, Joules, PrimePower is useful.
• Strong programming and scripting in Python; Tcl, Perl, C/C++, shell, SQL, or data-analysis tools are helpful.

Responsibilities

• Define power targets, budgets, operating points, and optimization strategies for CPU, AI accelerator, and SoC blocks.
• Develop and maintain architectural, activity-based, RTL, gate-level, emulation, and silicon power models.
• Set up and run RTL- and gate-level power analysis, develop benchmarks and tests, review results for opportunities across levels.
• Characterize CPU, memory, PCIe, networking, storage, AI training and inference workloads to identify bottlenecks.
• Drive power/performance/area/thermal tradeoff studies and power convergence across design and implementation phases.

Skills

Power analysis

Power modeling

Power optimization

Power management

Workload characterization

Silicon validation

RTL power-analysis

Python scripting

C/C++

Tcl

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years

Master's degree + 6 years

PhD + 3 years

Tools

Emulation

FPGA

Job description

Ampere Computing LLC is seeking a Principal Power Architect to drive power modeling, analysis, and optimization across CPU, AI accelerator, memory, and interconnect designs. This role spans architecture, RTL, firmware, and silicon to turn workload and power data into actionable decisions.

You will develop power models, run RTL/gate-level analyses, characterize workloads, and push power-management techniques such as DVFS, clock gating, and retention.