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SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Amazon$157K — $212K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • 4+ years of experience with a BS, 2+ with an MS, or 1+ with a PhD in EE/CS
  • Proficient in power analysis tools like PrimePower or PowerArtist
  • Circuit-level knowledge of chip power
  • Ability to feedback on power reduction to RTL and Physical Designers
  • Scripting proficiency in languages like Tcl, Perl, or Python
  • Strong understanding of Physical Design, EM/IR, Power Integrity, and Thermal at multiple levels

Responsibilities

  • Perform full chip power analysis and modeling from RTL to netlist
  • Develop and maintain power rollup dashboards
  • Collaborate with engineering teams for IR, Thermal, and power estimation analysis
  • Provide design feedback focused on power reduction
  • Conduct lab power measurements and correlate with simulations
  • Work with Emulation engineers on chip-level power modeling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Support
Full 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Cupertino - 157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

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