Sr SoC Power Engineer Annapurna Labs Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SoCs that are used to power todays AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a Sr. SoC Power Engineer youll 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.

Were 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 youll 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 chiplevel power consumption

A day in the life
Depending on the state of the project you may find yourself working on the following:

Working with designers architects and verification engineers to come up with worstcase vectors for power analysis or IR analysis
Root cause causes of low annotation or low switching coverage with vectors
Develop & maintain dashboards to track power consumption
Run tools like Power Artist to identify power saving opportunities and feed these back to the design team.
Work with emulation engineers to model chip level power consumption and correlate with simulation
Do postsilicon power measurements and correlate with simulation.



About the team
We are a startup like team where noone says this is not my job and you wont find anyone telling you to stay in your lane. This is a fastpaced intellectually challenging position and youll work with thoughtleaders in multiple technology areas. We encourage collaboration and teamwork with multiple teams and engineers including architects RTL designers Verification engineers Physical Design engineers Emulation engineers and software engineers.

BS 6yrs or MS 5yrs or PhD 3yr in EE/CS
Expert on power analysis tools like PrimePower PowerArtist or similar
Deep circuitlevel 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

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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