RTL POWER DESIGN ENGINEER
Position: RTL Power Design Engineer
Location: Remote
Time Zone: CST
Experience: 3+ Years
Focus: CPU Architecture | Power Analysis | Power Optimization | Energy Modeling
Key Responsibilities
- Drive CPU architecture and system-level energy modeling activities.
- Perform competitive performance and power analysis.
- Develop power optimization, simulation, and rollup methodologies.
- Develop power analysis techniques, optimization engines, and tooling solutions.
- Support CPU power analysis, power projections, and requirements definition.
- Profile power consumption across typical workloads such as YouTube, Facebook, and other representative applications.
- Perform workload analysis for battery life and define power tests.
- Conduct data mining at RTL and gate level to identify relevant micro-architectural transactions for high-level power estimation.
- Analyze power data and identify opportunities for power and PPA optimization.
- Collaborate with CPU architecture, RTL, verification, performance, and system teams.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of industry experience or equivalent research experience.
- Strong understanding of low-power design fundamentals.
- Knowledge of dynamic and leakage power concepts.
- Experience with power estimation and optimization.
- Experience in data analytics, workload profiling, and power analysis.
- Flow automation and scripting experience using Python | C | C++ | Gemini.
- Experience with power analysis/vendor tools such as PTPX | Ansys PowerArtist | Synopsys PrimePower RTL.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 5 years of RTL design and low-power design experience.
- Familiarity with power management, retention, and DVFS.
- Experience with data science and data analytics.
- Experience with CPU benchmarking and performance analysis.
- Experience conducting competitive CPU studies.
- Strong understanding of CPU microarchitecture and system-level concepts.
- Experience analyzing power across different workloads, operating conditions, and performance states.
Tools & Technologies
PTPX | Ansys PowerArtist | Synopsys PrimePower RTL | Python | C | C++ | Gemini
Key Skillset
RTL Design | CPU Architecture | Power Analysis | Low-Power Design | Power Estimation | Power Optimization | PPA | Energy Modeling | Python | C | C++ | Data Analytics | Workload Profiling | CPU Benchmarking | DVFS | Power Management | Leakage Power | Dynamic Power | PTPX | PowerArtist | PrimePower
Candidate Profile
Looking for candidates with hands-on experience in RTL design, CPU power analysis, low-power design, power estimation, energy modeling, workload profiling, and power optimization, with strong programming and data-analysis skills.
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