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Snap Inc. · 1 day ago

Electrical Engineer, System Power Architect, Spectacles, L5

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$190K/yr - $284K/yr

7+ years exp

Snap Inc. is a technology company focused on improving communication through innovative products like Snapchat and Spectacles. They are seeking a System Power Architect Engineer to develop and optimize power models for their hardware systems, ensuring efficient power consumption across various components.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Power Model Ownership: Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a system-level power model that accurately predicts the power consumption of all hardware components and software activities across different operational states and use cases

Load Characterization: Understand, characterize, and model power consumption for a wide array of system loads, including SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, memory, displays, wireless radios, sensors, actuators, and peripherals across varying functional modes

Battery Modeling: Integrate battery model (ESR) into use-case based run time estimates as well as HW system DCR and grounding requirements

Use Case Analysis: Collaborate with product and system architecture teams to define and model various use cases and translate into quantifiable power profiles

Early Power Estimation: Extract and integrate pre-silicon power estimates and power breakdown data for chips under development, providing crucial feedback for architecture choices

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with various submodule teams (e.g., silicon design, software, firmware, display, camera, wireless, audio, thermal) to gather accurate power consumption data, understand their respective power budgets, and identify optimization opportunities

Benchmarking & Validation: Hand-on measurement of power and performance data from prototypes and compare it against model predictions across HW and SW features. Debug discrepancies, identify root causes, and refine models to improve accuracy and predictive capability

Power Optimization Guidance: Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to hardware and software teams for power reduction strategies, trade-offs, and design optimizations

Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for power models, assumptions, methodologies, test procedures, and analysis reports

Qualification

System architecture knowledgePower management conceptsIntegrated circuit designPower delivery network layoutProcess development skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsDocumentation skills

Required

7+ years of post-Bachelor's electrical engineering or hardware engineering experience; or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 5+ year of post-grad electrical engineering experience; or 3+ years of post PhD in a relevant technical field

Knowledge of system architecture and subsystem metrics that impact performance for SOCs, Camera, Connectivity, Cellular, PMICs, and Battery

Knowledge of power management concepts and power delivery

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field

Demonstrated experience developing and shipping consumer electronic products at scale

Experience with integrated circuit design such as VHDL or analog design

Knowledge of layout strategies to meet Power Delivery Network impedance targets or in deriving power impedance masks

Excellent process development and documentation skills

Benefits

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support programs

Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success

Company

Snap Inc.

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Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

Founded in 2011

Santa Monica, California, US

5001-10000 employees

https://careers.snap.com/

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