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Principal Power Analysis Engineer

Job ID 2024-10578 Date posted Oct. 15, 2024 Location San Diego, California Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

Principal Power Analysis Engineer role responsible for estimating, analyzing and optimizing high-volume, sophisticated, SoC platforms on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments including mobile, automotive, datacenter and networking, and IoT.

This position plays a meaningful role in the development of production-quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and producing Arm development silicon!

Responsibilities:

You will join a highly focused group to define and lead activities to analyze and optimize the power of our next generation compute solutions using innovative technologies, methodologies and tools.

  • Lead a team focused on pre-silicon power analysis of SoC product features, from early estimation to final product validation.
  • Work proactively across Arm's SoC and IP product teams to coordinate the power measurement and optimization of the SoC design.
  • Collaborate with Architecture team to develop power modeling and estimation of world-leading SoCs.
  • Drive activities for pre-silicon design power measurements throughout the SoC development cycle from early modeling, RTL analysis, to in-depth timing annotated netlist analysis.
  • Collaborate with post-silicon characterization team to correlate pre-silicon estimates.
  • Defining relevant metrics, visualizations and reports for analyzing power.
  • Driving a culture of innovation in the team to improve power analysis methodologies.

Required Skills and Experience :

We are seeking strong technical leadership, with ability to develop accurate project plans involving multiple teams.

  • Expertise in RTL and Netlist based power analysis flows.
  • Expert knowledge of ASIC design dependencies on power efficiency including technology node, mixed Vt design, standard cell and memory library selection, voltage and power domain partitioning.
  • Shown experience driving multiple projects and supporting junior engineers.
  • Good knowledge of software use-cases and workloads and how they affect the hardware design power.
  • Good understanding of ASIC physical design flows and simulation/emulation flows.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Experience using tools for power analysis, power delivery and signoff. (e.g. PowerPro, PrimePower, Redhawk, etc)
  • Experience running simulation/emulation tools. (e.g. VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium, Zebu, etc)
  • Detailed knowledge of low power design features and techniques, including clock and power gating, voltage/frequency scaling, memory/logic retention.
  • Python for automation and modeling.
  • SoC use-case power budget decomposition to IP power budget.
  • Development of SoC benchmarks for power and performance analysis.
  • Experience with correlation between pre and post silicon power.
  • Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills. Able to present at technical content inside and outside of Arm.

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm’s offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together! These behaviors are assessed as part of the hiring process:

  • Partner and customer focus
  • Teamwork and communication
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Team and personal development
  • Impact and influence
  • Deliver on your promises

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Salary Range:

$221,127-$299,172 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

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