Staff Engineer - Trace-Driven Power & Thermal Simulator

Samsung Semiconductor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health benefits

Fertility/adoption stipend

Medical/Dental/Vision/401k

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor in San Jose, CA is seeking an experienced engineer to develop and extend the trace-driven power/thermal simulation engine, integrating power macromodels and workload traces into a coherent flow.

You will manage time-indexed simulations across power and thermal domains, generate transient power maps, and analyze hotspots while interfacing with CFD-calibrated solvers to ensure performance, scalability, and reproducibility.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ software-engineering background.
• Experience building or extending simulation frameworks.
• Familiarity with discrete-event or time-stepped simulation architectures.
• Solid software-design, debugging, and performance-optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize trace-driven power and thermal simulation engines.
• Integrate IP-level power macromodels into system-level simulation.
• Manage a time-indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains.
• Generate transient power maps and perform spatiotemporal hotspot analysis.
• Interface with reduced-order thermal models and CFD-calibrated solvers.
• Ensure simulation performance, scalability, and reproducibility.

Skills

C++

Simulation frameworks

Discrete-event simulation

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

None

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor in San Jose, CA is seeking an experienced engineer to develop and extend the trace-driven power/thermal simulation engine, integrating power macromodels and workload traces into a coherent flow.

You will manage time-indexed simulations across power and thermal domains, generate transient power maps, and analyze hotspots while interfacing with CFD-calibrated solvers to ensure performance, scalability, and reproducibility.