Job Details

CPU Power Engineer

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Dec 17, 2024

Role Number: 200583471

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We are looking for a strong candidate to join our CPU team focusing on power budgeting, analysis, and identification of recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.

Description

As a CPU Power Engineer, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Analyze and estimate the power impact of implementing new micro-architectural features
• Generate power rollups and projected estimates from initial to mature net lists through the lifecycle of a project
• Analyze power contributions to generate opportunities for recovery in physical implementation as well as RTL
• Create power projections factoring in expected cost of convergence and implementation and refine the process

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

• Perl/Python and TCL scripting experience from industry usage

• Experience with CPU architecture and implementation

Preferred Qualifications

• The ideal candidate should have broad knowledge related to micro-architecture, physical implementation, auto place and route tools, STA, spice, logic design, and device physics

• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications for high performance and high frequency designs

• CMOS circuit design and analysis skills

• Experience with industry standard power analysis tools like PrimePower and PowerArtist

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