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 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 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 chip-level power consumption

- Bachelors 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

- Masters 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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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 CA Cupertino - 157300.00 - 212800.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually