Power Analysis Lead

ARM

2024-05-03 14:02:59

Austin, Texas, United States

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: I.T. & Communications

Job description

Job Overview:

Power Analysis Lead is a technical lead role responsible for estimating, analyzing and optimizing high-volume, sophisticated, SoC platforms on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments including mobile, automotive, datacenter and networking, and IoT.

This position plays a meaningful role in the development of production-quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and producing Arm development silicon!

You will join a highly focused group to define and lead activities to analyze and optimize the power of our next generation compute solutions using innovative technologies, methodologies and tools.

• Lead a team focused on pre-silicon power analysis of SoC product features, from early estimation to final product validation.
• Work proactively across Arm's SoC and IP product teams to coordinate the power measurement and optimization of the SoC design.
• Collaborate with Architecture team to develop power modeling and estimation of world-leading SoCs.
• Drive activities for pre-silicon design power measurements throughout the SoC development cycle from early modeling, RTL analysis, to in-depth timing annotated netlist analysis.
• Collaborate with post-silicon characterization team to correlate pre-silicon estimates.
• Defining relevant metrics, visualizations and reports for analyzing power.
• Driving a culture of innovation in the team to improve power analysis methodologies.

We are seeking strong technical leadership, with ability to develop accurate project plans involving multiple teams.

• Expertise in RTL and Netlist based power analysis flows.
• Expert knowledge of ASIC design dependencies on power efficiency including technology node, mixed Vt design, standard cell and memory library selection, voltage and power domain partitioning.
• Shown experience driving multiple projects and supporting junior engineers.
• Good knowledge of software use-cases and workloads and how they affect the hardware design power.
• Good understanding of ASIC physical design flows and simulation/emulation flows.

• Experience using tools for power analysis, power delivery and signoff. (e.g. PowerPro, PrimePower, Redhawk, etc)
• Experience running simulation/emulation tools. (e.g. VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium, Zebu, etc)
• Detailed knowledge of low power design features and techniques, including clock and power gating, voltage/frequency scaling, memory/logic retention.
• Python for automation and modeling.
• SoC use-case power budget decomposition to IP power budget.
• Development of SoC benchmarks for power and performance analysis.
• Experience with correlation between pre and post silicon power.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills. Able to present at technical content inside and outside of Arm.

We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together! These behaviors are assessed as part of the hiring process:

• Partner and customer focus
• Teamwork and communication
• Creativity and innovation
• Team and personal development
• Impact and influence
• Deliver on your promises