Ventana Micro Systems · 2 months ago
CPU/SOC Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer
Hybrid Remote, Cupertino, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$105K/yr - $260K/yr
8+ years expVentana Micro Systems is building the highest-performance RISC-V CPUs designed for data center, AI, and edge workloads. The CPU/SOC Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer will focus on power analysis and optimization for CPU and SOC designs, including developing energy models and evaluating power reduction opportunities.
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)ElectronicsInformation TechnologySemiconductorSoftware
Responsibilities
Characterization and development of dynamic power estimation and management features
Develop energy models for early power estimation, what-if analysis and power targets
Support RTL and gate-level power rollup and analysis
Analyze various workloads to identify power reduction opportunities
Evaluate, evangelize, and implement power optimizations in both RTL and gates
Identify best power sign-off tests to improve power analysis coverage
Develop flows & heuristics to accelerate power triage on large power data sets
Present power results on a regular basis
Qualification
Required
8+ years industry experience with high performance CPU or GPU, memory subsystem, or related system-level designs
Bachelors or Masters degree in related engineering field
Strong domain knowledge of computer architecture
Knowledge of low power ASIC design and implementation techniques
Ability to work independently and across geographies
Excellent communication skills, self-motivated and well organized
Preferred
Verilog/SystemVerilog development experience
Industry experience with CPU microarchitecture (e.g. x86, ARM, SPARC, MIPS, RISC-V, POWER) and/or coherent caching systems
Experience with a broad range of high frequency design considerations (timing, multiple clock domains, clock distribution) including power
Experience with typical front-end tools including: Verilog simulators, waveform viewers, and linting tools, as well as logic synthesis and place and route
Experience in compiled and/or interpreted (Python, perl) languages
Experience in product level power budgeting and projection
Experience in Joules, PowerArtist, PTPX or similar power analysis tools
Experience in data mining applications to power modeling & triage
Experience in power use-case definition and analysis
Experience in post-silicon power correlation is a plus
Experience in power management techniques is a plus
Company
Ventana Micro Systems
Ventana delivers high-performance RISC-V CPUs with extensible instruction sets for cloud, data center, 5G, AI, and automotive markets.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$98.25M2025-12-10Acquired
2022-08-15Series Unknown· $55M
2021-09-01Series B· $38M
Leadership Team
Greg Favor
Co-Founder and CTO
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