Senior SoC Power Engineer, Google Cloud

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

Responsibilities

• Develop methodology of SoC roll up of power reduction, projection, configuration, test plan and tools.
• Work intact with Architecture, Frontend and Backend teams driving power reduction features (both logic and circuit).
• Work with power delivery and packaging teams on simulations and scenario definitions.
• Work with Architecture and design verification (DV) to define power scenarios and tests, debug, and integrate into the flow. Track whether power goals are met throughout execution.
• Lead the power of a project. Own project priorities, and allocation of technical resources within the project, informing and escalating appropriately when external factors impact execution.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in power estimation and optimization flows and tools.
• Experience with vector based physical design power tools (e.g., PTPX prime power).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with power optimization techniques (multiple threshold voltage/power/voltage domain design, clock gating, power gating, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)/adaptive voltage scaling (AVS), etc.) and power management.
• Experience with scripting languages (i.e., Python, Perl, TCL or Bash).
• Experience in post silicon measurements, telemetry, correlation to pre-silicon.
• Knowledge of the impact of software and architectural design decisions on power and thermal behavior of the system (thermal mitigation and scheduling, cross-layer policy design).
• Knowledge of system software components (i.e., Linux, drivers, runtime performance analysis, etc.).
• Knowledge of register-transfer level (RTL) micro-architecture and design for power.