SoC Power Thermal Performance Validation and Optimization Engineer

Develops and documents SOC validation requirements and tests for verification of Si designs. Investigates and resolves complex issues with hardware/BIOS/Firmware/Operating System implementations and recommends solutions. Uses analysis to resolve electrical issues.

Responsibilities and Duties:-Successful candidate will work hands-on to drive sophisticated equipment and on-die silicon features to:

• Measure the electrical performance of high switching speed buck converter
• Bring-up, developing recipes for analog IPs such as Integrated Voltage Regulators (FIVR) and detailed PVT characterization of the same.
• Characterize effective resistance and static switching losses in FIVR across PVT
• Provide FIVR inputs to power recipe used for binning Intel SoC
• Run industry standard benchmarks for performance within a given power envelope
• Tune core to memory latencies and bandwidth
• Define test plan by collaborating with design, chip architects and internal workgroups
• Perform stress testing of SoC at platform level with multiple peripherals, IO and core operating concurrently and measuring peak power and worst-case current spikes (dI/dt).
• Write scripts that controls test and measurement equipment, thermal controller, silicon configuration and other test components.
• Candidate would have to collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams such as IP design, BIOS, board development, platform validation, high volume manufacturing and wafer fabrication teams to resolve complex issues affecting product health ensuring world-class products for our customers.
• Electrical validation of ADC, DACs etc in modern CPUs chipsets and SOCs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Minimum Requirements:-

• BE degree or ME degree with 5 years+ in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or closely related field
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming principles
• Experience in writing SW content in Python
• Hands on experience measuring electrical performance of analog signals using oscilloscopes, source meters, server SoC validation platforms, power and performance recipe, SOC max current, min voltage and di/dt measurements
• Excellent hands-on silicon and platform debug skills
• Experience writing and debugging software to control hardware
• Proven experience to work well in teams and provide strong independent contributions.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:-

• Experience validating power delivery systems at system level
• Experience analysing power delivery systems
• Expertise in one or more of the following domains: CPU benchmarks, Power management, Reset/Fuse, PCIe, Memory sub-system validation
• Knowledge of Computer System Architecture
• Experience with Memory, network adaptors, fabric architecture, HBM, Cache Coherency
• Experience with debug of Intel chipsets and/or CPUs
• Understanding of a subsystem HW/SW stack, including the silicon, all onboard HW components and connectors and devices, drivers, and applications
• In depth knowledge of control loops in non-isolated buck converter topology
• Experience writing Python code to automate test procedures
• Understanding of PCB layout best practices
• Understanding of statistical data analysis and design of experiments