Product Power Engineer

SiFive • Austin, TX

16h

About The Position

About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are. Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. Are you ready? To learn more about SiFive’s phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA’s prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages. Job Description: The Role: A successful candidate will work across teams to collect, analyze, and optimize design power with the following responsibilities and requirements.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Computer Science / Computer Architecture
• 5+ years of experience in power benchmarking, analysis and modeling
• Experience with power impacts at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels.
• Good knowledge of computer architecture of high performance out-of-order CPU designs.
• Working experience in guiding trade-off between performance and power to arrive at optimal design.
• Experience with ASIC power analysis and optimization.
• Hands-on expertise with either HW development (RTL/implementation flows, verification/validation, backend flows, FPGA flows) or SW development is a strong plus.
• Self-starter, fast learner, strong problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Collect / analyze SiFive IP power consumption.
• Guide architecture and design to optimize our design to achieve state-of-the-art power efficiency
• Correlate power models with RTL and Silicon
• Innovate ways to improve power analysis flows

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree