SoC Power Validation Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

As part of the Silicon Engineering group, the SoC Power Validation Engineer helps turn new ideas into reality by contributing to the design of state-of-the-art ASICs. The role is part of the SoC hardware development and power teams and focuses on power hardware validation and analysis of typical SoC workloads. Workload power analysis informs power-optimization efforts aimed at achieving strong power and performance. The engineer collaborates across design, architecture, systems, and software teams, and supports use-case power measurements and improvements to energy efficiency and measurement infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.

Nice To Haves

• Strong C and assembly programming skills and familiarity with associated tool chains.
• Experience using basic lab equipment such as multimeters and oscilloscopes.
• Understanding of low-power digital design and power fundamentals, including dynamic and static power calculations in CMOS.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Measure silicon power dissipation for typical workloads, such as video streaming and video recording.
• Analyze workload power data and correlate silicon measurements with simulation results and projections.
• Collaborate with design, architecture, systems, and software teams.
• Work with multifunctional teams to enable use-case power measurements.
• Improve use-case energy efficiency by tuning hardware and software settings.
• Improve power measurement infrastructure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior