Chip Power Estimation Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is seeking an engineer to develop advanced power models for GPUs and SOCs, estimating chip and board power under product-driven use cases. The role involves understanding chip architecture, low power design, and process technology to develop estimation infrastructure and analyze power consumption. Collaboration with various engineering teams is expected. The position impacts product lines including AI, consumer graphics, and self-driving cars.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architecture, development and correlation of power estimation models/tools for NVIDIA's chips
  2. Help architect and develop power models for use-cases, Idle power and IO power.
  3. Chip in to design the tools based on these models and their testing methodology/infrastructures
  4. Correlate and Calibrate the power models using measured silicon data
  5. Analyze and help decide the chip configuration and process technology options to optimize power/performance for Nvidia's upcoming chips

Skills

Required

  • Power estimation
  • Performance estimation
  • Optimization techniques
  • VLSI circuits
  • Low power design techniques
  • Python
  • Object-oriented programming

Nice to have

  • Lab setup
  • Power measurement equipment
  • Scope/DAQ
  • Board level power analysis
  • Power analysis EDA tools
  • PTPX/EPS
  • Communication skills
  • Teamwork

What the JD emphasized

  • B.Tech./M.Tech and 2+ years of experience related to Power / Performance estimation and optimization techniques
  • Strong fundamentals in power including transistor-level leakage/dynamic characteristics of VLSI circuits
  • Familiarity with low power design techniques such as multi VT, Clock gating, Power gating, and Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
  • Strong background in power estimation techniques, flows and algorithms
  • Good programming skills - Python preferred. Good skills with object-oriented programming and design.