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Power Analysis Engineer

Job ID 2024-12295 Date posted Oct. 30, 2024 Location Austin, Texas; San Diego, California Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

Are you passionate about shaping the future of chip design? In the Solutions Engineering group at Arm, we offer the outstanding opportunity for an experienced Power Analysis Engineer to join our successful team in a dynamic and diverse role!

Arm is establishing teams to develop new and best-in-class silicon platforms, addressing markets such as premium mobile, compute, IoT, AI/ML server, and automotive. Arm’s ambition is to demonstrate efficient performance by architecting, implementing, and fabricating pioneering silicon using the latest SoC process nodes and packaging technologies.

This is an exciting and unique initiative, where we are driving how the next generation of leading compute devices are built across the industry. Join Arm to be part of the solution!

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will join a highly focused team where we analyze and optimize the performance per watt of our next generation solutions using innovative technologies, methodologies and tools. This will involve simulation, emulation, modeling and collaboration with cross-functional teams in design, verification, architecture, SW, and pre and post silicon test. You will build and innovate new processes along the way. We want your talents applied not only to ensuring customer requirements in PPA are measured and analyzed, but also understood and creatively exceeded. This includes:

  • Developing RTL simulator and emulator based workloads for power estimation
  • Creating visualizations demonstrating the hardware power signature and capabilities
  • Reviewing the quality and accuracy of data produced by the latest EDA power analysis tool flows and evaluating new tools and methodologies

Required Skills and Experience :

We are seeking experienced engineers for a multi-disciplinary role. Ideal candidates have past experience in power analysis, modeling or are motivated engineers with valuable transferable skills from design, implementation, or verification backgrounds.

  • Understanding of low power design features and techniques, including clock and power gating, voltage/frequency scaling, memory/logic retention
  • Ability to balance trade-offs between power, performance, and area
  • Verilog or System Verilog experience
  • Knowledge of Physical Implementation flow from RTL through Synthesis, Place & Route to STA

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Development or analysis of CPU, Graphics, and Memory benchmarks for PPA analysis.
  • Experience using tools for power analysis, power delivery and signoff. (e.g. PowerPro, PrimePower, PowerArtist, Redhawk, etc)
  • Background in running simulation/emulation tools. (e.g. VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium, Zebu, etc)

In Return:

Excellent salary and benefits are a start. As part of our SoC Architecture team, the opportunity to grow your depth of knowledge in novel power saving technologies along with Arm's validated IP solutions will establish a foundation yours to steer in many directions.

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Salary Range:

$185,491-$250,958 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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