ASIC Power Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Hardware
Do you like to work on ground breaking technologies that enable amazing new products? Do you have the attention for details and love for excellence to work towards an extraordinary result? Envision what you could do here! At Apple, we believe new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!
Key Qualifications
- Hands on experience with PTPX and Power Artist power analysis tools
- Experience in SOC power simulation, modeling, and analysis flow
- Experience in ASIC power estimation, analysis and optimization
- Familiarity with script writing in python, Perl or TCL
- Understanding of electrical properties of on-die PDN, power gating, package and system power delivery
- Familiarity with power impact at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels
- Familiarity with SOC design Flow and Methodology
- Strong communication to collaborate with different groups
- Familiarity of WiFi or BT Standards is a plus
Description
In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for SOC power simulation, SOC use case power analysis, and drive the future SOC power optimization. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new ideas, as well as work with a team of talented engineers.
The main responsibility of this role is to drive the SOC power modeling and optimization for very power efficient products
- Work with architects to define interesting power use-cases
- Define power targets and work with cross-functional team to meet the power targets
- Define test cases within the design verification team’s environment
- Generate pre-silicon power estimation
- Analyze and identify power reduction and drive
- Develop SOC power model on new architecture design, providing power data for performance/power trade-offs
- Understand interactions of the product at the software and system level that impact power
The job also involves partnering with the lab and silicon characterization team on correlating models to the silicon data
Education & Experience
BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience