SoC Power Thermal Performance Validation and Optimization Engineer

Defines, develops, and performs SoC level power, thermal, and performance validation and optimization plan across Intel products. Understands the business implications of ensuring power and performance KPIs within target and power and thermal limitations. Drives SoC level usage optimization under specific scenarios, develops key performance indicators and landing zones, power and thermal benchmarks, and drives execution, reporting, and documentation of results. Ratifies optimizations from hardware/software architecture and proposes solutions to software PTP teams.

Develops power, thermal, and performance validation methodologies, executes validation plans, and collaborates with other engineers for design optimization, troubleshooting, and failure analysis. Performs SoC level debug to identify root causes and resolves all functional and triage failures for power, thermal, and performance issues.

Develops validation infrastructure (e.g., performance monitors, behavioral checkers, state space coverage) and test environment used in validation testing. Configures and sets up data logger for thermal data collection and analysis. Publishes SoC level power, thermal, and performance validation reports summarizing all validation and optimization activities performed, reviews results, and communicates to relevant teams. Works with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, and platform teams to maintain and improve debug, validation test strategy, methodologies, and processes to ensure power, thermal, and performance meet and exceed product completive targets and specifications.

Minimum Requirements:-

• BE degree or ME degree with 9 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.