SoC Power Engineer: AI Accelerator Efficiency Expert

Annapurna Labs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs is seeking a seasoned SoC Power Engineer in San Diego to model and estimate power from RTL through final netlist, driving power reductions for our AI accelerators. You will work closely with architects, designers, verification, and Physical Design teams to define best practices and improve power accuracy.

You will develop power vectors, build dashboards, and use tools like PrimePower/PowerArtist to validate analyses, while collaborating across lab measurements and emulation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
• BS + 4yrs or MS + 2yrs or PhD + 1yr in EE/CS
• Experience with power analysis tools like PrimePower, PowerArtist or similar
• Circuit-level understanding of chip power
• Proficient with scripting language (Tcl, Perl, Python or similar)
• Good understanding of Physical Design, EM/IR, Power Integrity, and Thermal at the die, package, board, and server level

Responsibilities

• Responsible for full chip power analysis & modelling at various stages of design (RTL to gate level netlist)
• Develop and maintain dashboards for power rollups
• Work with designers, architects, Verification engineers and Physical Design engineers to develop vectors for IR analysis, Thermal analysis and power estimation
• Give feedback to designers and architects on how to reduce power
• Make power measurements in the lab and correlate back to simulations.
• Work with Emulation engineers to model chip-level power consumption

Skills

Power analysis

Scripting (Python/Tcl/Perl)

RTL/Physical Design feedback

Power integrity/EM

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS

MS or PhD considered

Tools

PrimePower

PowerArtist

Redhawk

Voltus

Zebu Emulator

Job description

Annapurna Labs is seeking a seasoned SoC Power Engineer in San Diego to model and estimate power from RTL through final netlist, driving power reductions for our AI accelerators. You will work closely with architects, designers, verification, and Physical Design teams to define best practices and improve power accuracy.

You will develop power vectors, build dashboards, and use tools like PrimePower/PowerArtist to validate analyses, while collaborating across lab measurements and emulation