RTL Power Analysis

Globex Digital Corp.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Globex Digital Corp. is seeking an individual contributor engineer to own CPU power analysis, energy modeling, and power optimization across workloads.

The role involves developing novel techniques, collaborating with the SoC and CPU Power Team to set power projections and requirements, and driving RTL-level analysis to improve energy efficiency of our CPU.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of industry or research experience in hardware or related field.
• Experience with low-power fundamentals, data analytics, and profiling.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive CPU architecture and system-level energy modeling activities.
• Develop power analysis techniques and optimization tooling to improve battery life.
• Collaborate with SoC/CPU teams on power projections and requirements.
• Profile power for typical workloads (e.g., YouTube, Facebook) for energy estimates.
• Data mining analysis at RTL and gate-level to define micro-architectural transactions for power estimation.

Skills

Power analysis

Data analytics

Flow automation

Education

BS in Electrical Eng / CS

Tools

PTPX

Ansys Power Artist

Synopsys Prime Power RTL

Job description

• The CPU Power Team wants a talented individual contributor engineer to own and drive several activities related to CPU architecture and system level energy modeling, competitive performance and power analysis, power optimization, simulation and rollups.
• Develop novel power analysis techniques, optimization engines and other tooling solutions to improve the battery life analysis and maximize the energy efficiency of our CPU
• The qualified engineer will collaborate with the SoC and CPU Power Team on power analysis and projections and requirements for our CPU. This charter includes profiling the power of typical workloads such as YouTube, Facebook, etc
• Perform workload analysis for battery life and tests definition for power analysis and optimization
• Perform data mining analysis at the RTL and gate-level to define relevant micro-architectural transactions for high-level power estimation.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of experience in industry (e.g. Hardware, etc.) or equivalent research
• Experience with low-power fundamentals (e.g., dynamic and leakage, power estimation, and optimization), data analytics and profiling
• Experience in flow automation (Python, C, C++, Gemini)
• Expertise in vendor tools such as PTPX, Ansys Power Artist, Synopsys Prime Power RTL

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience in RTL design and low-power design techniques
• Familiar with the concept of power management, retention, DVFS
• Experience with data science
• Familiar with CPU benchmarking, performance analysis and competitive study
• Demonstrated knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and system level