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Advanced Microdevices Pvt. Ltd. (India) · 1 month ago

Power Architect, Silicon Design Engineering

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc is a company focused on building products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences. They are seeking a Power Architect to guide SoCs from early concept stages through design execution and post-silicon, collaborating with various teams to drive innovation for power performance and battery life in AMD's Client and handheld products.

BiopharmaBiotechnologyIndustrialManufacturing

No H1B

Responsibilities

As a technical member of the power architecture group, work with internal and external strategic partners, customers and industry standards to define AMD power roadmap and competitive targets for bounding box workloads

Work involves detailed workload analysis to identify high value opportunities in IP, subsystem and SOC to increase power efficiency wrt performance/watt and battery life

Detail oriented visionary, who can make clear process/flow recommendations and technically drive deployment across teams to achieve power bounding box targets

Coordinate with world-wide teams including SOC architects, SOC and IP design teams, Systems engineering and Product Engineering to ensure power feature full realization from concept, to implementation, verification, FW/SW enablement, emulation and Silicon attainment

Lead team in modeling complex power use case scenarios across SoC roadmap, correlating power estimates with pre-silicon model updates at each SOC maturity milestone to final tape-out PTPX numbers, real life workload correlation in emulation as well as post silicon, and ensure aggressive power objectives and goals are met for customer delivery

Create innovative power reduction initiatives and methodologies and drive cross-organization alignment with SoC and IP teams for implementation towards power convergence

Responsible for leading modeling design of experiments towards long-term integrated power-performance framework for driving power-perf improvements, voltage margining, feature ROI analysis and architectural solutions

Define, align, and drive power feature definitions with cross-BU synergy in close collaboration with SoC and power architects

Optimize PC use cases in terms of absolute power and in relative performance per watt

Qualification

Power architecturePower integrity analysisC/C++ programmingWorkload analysisSilicon validationAnalytical thinkingProblem-solvingTeam collaborationCommunication skillsAttention to detail

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

5+ year of relevant experience

Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail

Organized, self-motivated and able to work effectively on teams large and small across multiple sites

Ability to prioritize assignments and drive them to completion

Strong verbal and written communication skills essential for driving technical discussions to successful and actionable outcomes

Preferred

Architect with deep understanding of semiconductor power architecture and power delivery including on-die, substrate, silicon interposer and PCB power delivery

Experience with power integrity/ signal integrity analysis, droop management/mitigation and capacitor types and performance

Experience defining and analyzing workloads, system bottlenecks and optimizing computing systems for performance and power efficiency

Experience with architecting new SOC power features and low power states for improving battery life and guide prototyping the features

Adept at power evaluation, modeling, simulation and silicon attainment

Demonstrated ability to co-own power feature enablement working with Firmware algorithm and software driver teams

Demonstrated ability to write detailed internal and customer facing architecture specifications

C/C++ programming, automation & scripting languages, Excel, and software engineering concepts desirable

General familiarity with microprocessor and/or PC architecture

Self-driven individual, having ability to work independently to tackle complex cross discipline problems. Clear methodical problem solver bridging and collaborating across a world-wide team