Power Analysis and Optimization Engineer

Overview

• Not only pursuing the outstanding chip performance, NVIDIA also keeps chasing for the power efficiency in every product.
• Perf-per-Watt is crucial to us.
• Power Analysis and Optimization Team is responsible for helping IP teams to define power targets with any architecture change or new added feature; to find power saving opportunities throughout the ASIC design process, starting from architecture define to the P&R stage; and to solve any potential power issues that might have negative impacts on functionality and performance.
• As a member of our team, you will work closely with IP Architects, ASIC Design/Verification Engineers, Physical Design team and many other teams to meet the pre-defined power targets.
• Your contributions will make each Nvidia GPU and SOC products be more energy efficient, achieve excellent Perf-per-Watt and maintain the competitive advantage in the market.
• What you'll be doing: Understand Functionality, Architecture, Feature Algorithm and RTL implementation of IP design.
• Create dedicated IP-level Power model for early power estimation, if any architecture change or new added feature needed.
• Co-work with IP owner to define the power target with different workloads and application scenarios.
• Use internal-developed power flow and analysis tools to look for power saving opportunities; drive IP owner to implement the fixes.
• Explore new methodology to identify more wasted activities in the design and find solutions to save the power.
• Develop automation flow to help improve the efficiency of power analysis.
• What we need to see: MS with 1~3 years of experience or PhD in related fields.
• Basic understanding of the concept of power and common low power design techniques.
• Familiar with PTPX, PowerArtist and ASIC design flow including RTL coding, synthesis, P&R.
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Python, C++, tcl script.
• Good verbal/written English and communication skills.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Low power design experience is a big plus.
• Power Modeling/Analysis experience is a plus.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.