Principal Power Management Engineer

About 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.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of AI innovation, building AmpereOne Aurora, our groundbreaking AI compute solution. Aurora combines high-performance general-purpose CPUs with integrated AI capabilities, offering a compelling combination of efficiency and market reach. This revolutionary product is poised to deliver superior performance while consuming significantly less power.

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 achieve:

• 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.

About you:

• 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
• 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

What we'll offer:

At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus (i.e., variable pay tied to internal company goals), long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits highlights include:

• Premium medical, dental, vision insurance, parental benefits including creche reimbursement, as well as a retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health, financial future and child care during work.
• Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
• Fully catered lunch in our office along with a variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.