Job description 

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a seasoned SoC Architect with expertise or significant interest in System Architecture. You have had significant success driving architecture, product roadmaps and product requirements. You are meticulous about Power, Performance and Area while driving schedule and managing cost. This senior role will stretch you as you lead architecture teams in new directions, network with our world-class, patent-holding think-tank, and negotiate amongst design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

THE PERSON:

You have excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc.  You are highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for 3 main areas, 1. Power modeling, 2. Power optimization and 3. Power correlation of cutting-edge IPs/Subsystem/SoCs across AMD family of products.
• Come up with bottoms-up estimate and top-down target for new IP/SoC
• Run power tools like PowerArtist and Primetime PX (PTPX) on various IPs/SoC.
• Review power reports and identify the outliers to debug the root cause of high-power consumption blocks
• Recommend fixes in RTL and Physical design to reduce power.
• Provide feedback to IP teams to drive power optimization efforts throughout the project.
• Should be a team player, eagerness to learn new technology in low power space.
• Wherever possible come up with a new/innovative flow to simplify existing data (area vs signal-activity vs dynamic power etc..) to improve power projections.

Preferred Experience:

• Familiarity with low power/power optimization concepts in front-end and back-end design
• Familiarity with Verdi, PowerArtist tool and PrimetimePX(PTPX) tool.

 ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related discipline preferred

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