SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs and 401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon seeks an experienced SoC Power Engineer to model and estimate power across RTL to final netlist, driving power reduction in our ML accelerators. You will work with architects, designers, verification, and physical design teams to ensure accurate power estimates and implement power-saving techniques.

The role requires hands-on experience with power analysis tools, scripting, and a strong understanding of physical design, EM/IR, and thermal challenges at multiple levels, from die to server.

Qualifications

• BS in EE/CS or related field
• 4+ years in EE power analysis or ASIC power modeling
• Experience with power analysis tools (PrimePower/PowerArtist)
• Circuit-level power understanding
• Able to give RTL/Physical Designers feedback on power reduction
• Proficient in TCL/Perl/Python scripting
• Knowledge of Physical Design, EM/IR, Power Integrity, Thermal at multiple levels

Responsibilities

• Perform full-chip power analysis and modeling from RTL to gate-level netlist
• Develop and maintain dashboards for power rollups
• Create vectors for IR, Thermal, and power estimation with design teams
• Provide feedback to designers on power reduction strategies
• Perform lab power measurements and correlate with simulations
• Collaborate with Emulation teams to model chip-level power consumption

Skills

Power analysis

Scripting: Tcl/Perl/Python

Power integrity

RTL to gate-level power modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS

MS/PhD +1yr (preferred)

Tools

PrimePower

PowerArtist

EM/IR/Voltus tools

Zebu Emulator

Job description

Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SoCs that are used to power today’s AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a SoC Power Engineer, you’ll contribute to the project at the ground level by modeling and estimating power at every stage of the design from early RTL to final netlist and by driving ways to reduce power consumption of our machine learning accelerators.

We’re searching for an experienced SoC Power engineer with a background in Power analysis with a proven track record of handling challenges at scale. In this role, you’ll be working directly with architects, designers, verification engineers, software teams, and Physical Design experts - defining best practices to reduce power and model power consumption with high accuracy.

Key job 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

Basic 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
• Ability to give feedback to RTL designers and Physical Designers on how to reduce 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• Familiarity with Make or similar for automation of power rollups
• Experience with RTL design (System verilog)
• Familiarity with EMIR analysis tools (Redhawk / Voltus)
• Experience with Zebu Emulator platform

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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