RTL Power Engineer

KTek Resourcing LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The CPU Power Team seeks an individual contributor engineer to own and drive CPU architecture, system-level energy modeling, competitive power analysis, and power optimization across workloads.

You will develop novel power analysis techniques and tooling to improve battery life and energy efficiency, collaborate with SoC and CPU teams on projections and requirements, and profile power for representative workloads such as YouTube, Facebook, and other media streams.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own and drive CPU architecture, energy modeling, and power optimization across workloads.
• Develop power analysis techniques, optimization engines, and tooling for battery life improvement.
• Collaborate with SoC/CPU teams on power projections and requirements.
• Profile power for typical workloads (e.g., YouTube, Facebook).
• Perform data mining at RTL and gate-level for high-level power estimation.

Skills

Power analysis

RTL design

Low-power design techniques

Data analytics

Flow automation

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent

Tools

PTPX

Ansys Power Artist

Synopsys Prime Power RTL

Gemini

Python

C/C++

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