Principal Power Management Engineer

Description

The Role 

Ampere Computing is looking for a qualified design engineer on power analysis, optimization, and validation, to contribute in designing our high-performance power-efficient microprocessor chipset. This person will be a part of the Silicon Engineering team and work across multiple groups to drive the power requirements, and power optimization from micro-architecture to final silicon.

What the Team wants you to know

Power analysis engineer is expected have strong CMOS design fundamentals and deep knowledge of power reduction techniques at various levels of abstraction.  Expertise in analyzing the results given by various power estimation tools and create actionable items for power reduction.  Experience in developing flows and post processing scripts to help in analysis and rollup.   

What you’ll do

• Setup power analysis environment for at the RTL-level, and gate-level for power analysis of all design blocks at the pre-silicon stage.
• Determine tests and benchmarks to run on all blocks for pre-silicon power analysis
• Develop tests in DV test environment to certain use cases interesting for power analysis and reduction
• Run and review power analysis reports at the RTL-level and gate-level on all design blocks. Identify areas of improvements at the architecture-level, RTL-level, and synthesis.
• Analyze power from activities from workloads run on emulation environment
• Determine power optimization budgets for all blocks, and setup runs to validate them as the design progresses.
• Understand the different CPU use cases, Memory and Pcie workloads.
• Work with industry standard power analysis tools like Spyglass/Power Artist/Joules/PrimePower etc.
• Maintain and improve existing power modeling and analysis flows.

What you’ll bring

• Experience with power analysis using gate-level and RTL-power analysis tools
• Good understanding of power analysis and optimization on CMOS designs
• Good understanding of clock-gating, power-gating, DVFS, etc. used for power optimization
• Good understanding of processor designs, processor work-loads.
• Solid programming and scripting skills using  Perl/Python/Tcl
• Experience running power analysis on activity from emulation environment
• Owned CPU or SOC design blocks and familiar with design flows (synthesis, place & route, power, timing, EM/IR)
• Owned power analysis methodology and/or automation in previous role
• Hands-on working experience with Power analysis tools and flows (one or more of the following industry-standard tools: Primepower, PTPX, Power Artist, Joules, Voltus)
• Advanced knowledge of Python, TCL and shell scripting

Education

• M.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 6+ years of semiconductor experience or B.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 8+ years of semiconductor experience

Our Company  

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story  

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come.

Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications.  Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power and performance, delivering results that matter most.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.