Sr. SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Sr. SoC Power Engineer to model and estimate power from RTL to final netlist and drive power-reduction strategies for our ML accelerators.

You will collaborate with architects, designers, verification and physical design teams to define best practices and achieve high-accuracy power estimates for Inferentia and Trainium platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Proven power analysis experience across RTL to gate level netlists.
• Experience with power modeling and power integrity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Perform full chip power analysis from RTL to netlist.
• Develop dashboards for power rollups and reporting.
• Create vectors for IR and thermal analysis and power estimation.
• Provide feedback to RTL and Physical Designers to reduce power.
• Measure power in lab and compare with simulations.
• Collaborate with architects and designers across teams.

Skills

Power analysis tools

Scripting languages

Circuit-level power understanding

RTL/Physical Design feedback

Lab power analysis experience

Education

BS in EE/CS

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

PrimePower

PowerArtist

Redhawk

Voltus

Zebu Emulator

Job description

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 Sr. 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.

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 Sr. SoC Power Engineer, 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.

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 + 6yrs or MS + 5yrs or PhD + 3yr in EE/CS
• Expert on power analysis tools like PrimePower, PowerArtist or similar
• Deep, circuit-level understanding of chip power
• Ability to give feedback to RTL designers and Physical Designers on how to reduce power
• Highly 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
• Some experience with lab equipment and capable of doing lab power analysis

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

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USA, CA, Cupertino - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually

Company

- Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.

Job ID: A10454010