Senior Power Methodology and Modeling Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Austin, TX +1

This role focuses on energy modeling for NVIDIA's next-generation GPUs, CPUs, and Tegra SoCs. The engineer will develop and implement tools and methodologies for data generation, sanitization, and integration with performance tools to analyze energy usage in graphics and AI workloads. The role involves mining performance data, identifying bottlenecks, and experimenting with ML techniques for design analysis and power target setting. While the role uses ML techniques and analyzes AI workloads, its core craft is in power methodology and modeling for hardware design, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and implement tools and methodologies for efficient data generation from post layout netlists to feed into data movement power analytical model.
  2. Develop tools and infrastructure to sanitize each metric in the model to achieve correlation accuracy.
  3. Define and implement tools and methodologies for efficient integration of power models with performance tools.
  4. Identify runtime and memory limitation of existing flows and tools to speedup model delivery process.
  5. Mine data from pre- and post-silicon performance runs to find important data paths and bottlenecks. Give feedback to design teams and improve power efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • C++
  • Algorithm analysis
  • VLSI
  • Digital design
  • Computer architecture
  • Power and energy consumption estimation
  • Low power design
  • Chip design process

Nice to have

  • Machine learning
  • AI
  • Statistical modeling
  • PowerBI
  • OpenSearch

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience
  • Strong coding skills, preferably in Python, C++
  • Ability to formulate and analyze algorithms, and comment on their runtime and memory complexities.
  • Good understanding of fundamental concepts of power and energy consumption, estimation, and low power design.
  • Basic understanding of chip design process from RTL design to tape-out.