Senior Power Management Engineer

Senior Power Management Engineer

US Citizen or US Permanent Resident

San Jose, California or remote from any US location

Responsibilities

• Conduct power modeling & analysis: use UPF driven flows for early RTL power budgeting, leakage/dynamic power estimation, DVFS schemes, gate level impact, and thermal aware power sequencing.

• Coordinate cross team: align power intent integration, sequencing handshakes, API behavior, and cross domain safety with firmware, verification, RTL, physical design, and PMIC teams.

• Define UPF/CPF power intent architecture: establish power domains, power states, retention policies, isolation strategies, and level shifter insertion across the SoC hierarchy.

• Develop and implement advanced power management architecture—including Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), power gating, and low power states—to enhance energy efficiency across SoC domains and use case

• Micro-architect, Design and Develop power management unit for Next Gen AI accelerator chip

• Partner with firmware teams: leverage knowledge of C/C++ to review and reason about firmware-controlled PMIC interactions, power state transitions, retention restore logic, and isolation control—without performing firmware development directly.

• Specify structural low power elements: design isolation cells, level shifters, power switches, and retention (save/restore) flows to ensure correct behavior across power states.

• Support low power verification: establish UPF aware testbench strategies, static and dynamic low power checks for EDA signoff, ensuring correct insertion of retention and isolation logic and domain handshakes.

• Support silicon bring up: assist with post silicon validation of retention sequences, isolation logic, voltage transitions, and state handovers during lab bring up.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in SoC low power architecture and flows, especially UPF/CPF intent specification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE, CE, or related technical field.

• Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, Tcl, Perl) to automate power intent flows and analysis

• Proficient in writing good quality, synthesizable RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog), SoC integration, and UPF aware synthesis/implementation flows

• Proficient understanding of C/C++, sufficient to review and interact with firmware power control sequences

• Proven knowledge of retention (save/restore) cells, isolation cells, level shifters, power gating, and multi voltage domains

• Strong familiarity with power analysis and verification tools (e.g., PowerArtist, PTPX, Calypto, CLP, VC LP)

Preferred:

• Background coordinating PMIC interfaces and hardware firmware power sequencing

• Experience defining retention/register re store sequences and retention IP integration

• Exposure to post silicon validation, lab bring up of power state transitions, and diagnostic logging