Senior Soc Power Analysis Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior SoC Power Analysis Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on analyzing and optimizing silicon power and performance for various NVIDIA SoCs, including those used in AI workloads. The role involves creating power models and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve power efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyzing and optimizing Silicon power and performance across technical, product, and usage constraints for Nvidia SoCs used in data center, driving, robotics, multimedia, edge computing, and other embedded applications.
  2. Working with teams throughout the company (HW, SW, Platform, Thermal, Operations, Marketing, etc...) to deliver outstanding power solutions.
  3. Guiding HW, SW and Platform teams in evaluating and improving Perf/Watt and battery life of their implementations.
  4. Creating power models of key SoC units to evaluate architectural tradeoffs in DL/ML (training/inference), CPU, GPU, and multimedia workloads.

Skills

Required

  • Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience focused on computer architecture and SOC power-perf analysis and optimization
  • Understanding of factors influencing power efficiency at HW, SW, system, and product levels
  • Understanding of HW-SW interactions for Deep learning, Multimedia, or Productivity use cases
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
  • Drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth

Nice to have

  • Experience with modeling and optimization of power and/or performance
  • Python scripting and SW programming
  • Experience with prototyping power-optimization ideas on silicon

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of additional relevant work experience focused on computer architecture and SOC power-perf analysis and optimization.