Chip Power Estimation Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is looking for an engineer to develop advanced power models for GPUs and SOCs, focusing on chip and board power estimation. This role involves understanding chip architecture, low power design, and process technology to estimate power consumption under various scenarios. The engineer will collaborate with multiple design teams and contribute to performance/watt improvement ideas for NVIDIA's products, which are increasingly used in AI applications.

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
  • Clock gating
  • Power gating
  • DVFS
  • Python
  • Object-oriented programming

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ 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.