Sr. SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning

Amazon • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SoCs that are used to power today’s AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a Sr. SoC Power Engineer, you’ll contribute to the project at the ground level by modeling and estimating power at every stage of the design from early RTL to final netlist and by driving ways to reduce power consumption of our machine learning accelerators. We’re searching for an experienced SoC Power engineer with a background in Power analysis with a proven track record of handling challenges at scale. In this role, you’ll be working directly with architects, designers, verification engineers, software teams, and Physical Design experts - defining best practices to reduce power and model power consumption with high accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• BS + 6yrs or MS + 5yrs or PhD + 3yr in EE/CS
• Expert on power analysis tools like PrimePower, PowerArtist or similar
• Ability to give feedback to RTL designers and Physical Designers on how to reduce power
• Highly proficient with scripting language (Tcl, Perl, Python or similar)
• Good understanding of Physical Design, EM/IR, Power Integrity, and Thermal at the die, package, board, and server level
• Understanding of lab equipment use and capable of doing lab power analysis
• Knowledge of deep circuit-level chip power

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Make or similar for automation of power rollups
• Experience with RTL design (System verilog)
• Familiarity with EMIR analysis tools (Redhawk / Voltus)
• Experience with Zebu Emulator platform

Responsibilities

• Responsible for full chip power analysis & modelling at various stages of design (RTL to gate level netlist)
• Develop and maintain dashboards for power rollups
• Work with designers, architects, Verification engineers and Physical Design engineers to develop vectors for IR analysis, Thermal analysis and power estimation
• Give feedback to designers and architects on how to reduce power
• Make power measurements in the lab and correlate back to simulations.
• Work with Emulation engineers to model chip-level power consumption

Benefits

• Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• We value work-life harmony.
• We strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
• You’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

What This Job Offers

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