AMD · 3 hours ago
Power Architect, Silicon Design Engineering
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$192K/yr - $289K/yrAMD is a company focused on building products that enhance next-generation computing experiences. They are seeking a power architect to guide SoCs through design execution and post silicon, collaborating with various teams to drive innovation for power performance and battery life.
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Hiring Manager
Art Gallardo
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
Required
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 for driving technical discussions to successful and actionable outcomes
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
Several years of relevant, commercial experience
Preferred
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
Benefits
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AMD
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
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