Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Development

Samsung Semiconductor • San Jose, CA

1d • $163,000 - $253,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The engineer develops and extends the trace-driven power/thermal simulation engine, integrating power macromodels, workload traces, and thermal solvers into a coherent, scalable simulation flow.
Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office in alignment with our Flexible Work policy
Reports to: SVP, R&D (Power & Thermal Lab)

Requirements

• Bachelors degree 10+ years of experience or Masters degree 8+ years of experience or PhD Degree 5+ years of experience.
• Strong C++ software-engineering background.
• Experience building or extending simulation frameworks.
• Familiarity with discrete-event or time-stepped simulation architectures.
• Solid software-design, debugging, and performance-optimization skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with time-indexed and event-driven simulation.
• Knowledge of numerical methods or reduced-order modeling.
• Exposure to data-pipeline integration.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize trace-driven power and thermal simulation engines.
• Integrate IP-level power macromodels into system-level simulation.
• Manage a time-indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains.
• Generate transient power maps and perform spatiotemporal hotspot analysis.
• Interface with reduced-order thermal models and CFD-calibrated solvers.
• Ensure simulation performance, scalability, and reproducibility.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/401k
• Charitable giving match
• 4+ weeks of paid time off a year
• Holidays
• Sick leave
• Stipend for fertility care or adoption
• Medical travel support
• Virtual vet care
• On-demand apps for emotional wellness
• Free confidential therapy sessions
• Onsite Café
• Gym
• Virtual classes

What This Job Offers

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