Power Architecture Engineer

What you’ll be doing:  

• Be part of NVIDIA Power Architecture Group that owns end-to-end power aspects such as - ASIC power analysis, power architecture, low power design, power-aware verification, advanced power methodologies, UPF methodologies, power feature bring-up on silicon, and post-Si power correlation for NVIDIA's family of products. 

• Contributing to power analysis by helping to architect, develop, verify & correlate power estimation models/tools for NVIDIA's products 

• Be part of the team that architects & designs system-level power features for optimizing the dynamic and leakage power dissipation for different usecases.  

• Work on power verification which includes structural, functional & power aware verification of power features of NVIDIA products by coming up with test plans, write testcases, build test bench components like Monitors, assertions and coverage points & own verification convergence across RTL, Gates and Silicon.  

• Validate the effectiveness of the power features on silicon, conduct studies and contribute to the Performance/Watt improvement ideas.  

• Help build power management solutions and drive innovation in energy efficiency across NVIDIA’s product portfolio.  

What we need to see:  

• B.Tech./M.Tech with 1+ years of experience related to Power such as Power analysis, Power Design, Power Aware Verification, UPF methodologies and Power Correlation 

• Strong fundamentals in power including transistor-level leakage/dynamic characteristics of VLSI circuits  

• Strong fundamentals in digital design and verilog 

• Familiarity with low power design techniques such as multi-VT, Clock gating, Power gating, Voltage Islands and Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling (DVFS)  

• Good background in power estimation techniques, flows and algorithms  

• Knowledge of power intent formats - UPF/CPF or similar 

• Experience in Static Power check tools like VCLP/CLP or similar & Dynamic Power verification tools like VCS-NLP or equivalent 

Ways to stand out from the crowd:  

• Good debugging and problem-solving skills 

• Strong communication skills and ability & desire to work as a great teammate 

• Good programming skills - Python preferred (Good skills with object-oriented programming & design) preferred.  

• Exposure to Power analysis tools (such as PTPX, EPS) or exposure to lab setups for power measurements like scope/DAQ with ability to analyze board level power issues is a plus