Power Architecture Engineer

Overview

Work in NVIDIA's Power Architecture Group on end-to-end power aspects for NVIDIA's family of products, including power analysis, power architecture, low power design, power-aware verification, UPF methodologies, power feature bring-up on silicon, and post-silicon power correlation.

What you'll do

• Contribute to power analysis by helping to architect, develop, verify, and correlate power estimation models and tools for NVIDIA's products.
• Architect and design system-level power features to optimize dynamic and leakage power dissipation for different use cases.
• Perform structural, functional, and power-aware verification of power features.
• Develop test plans and write test cases.
• Build testbench components such as monitors, assertions, and coverage points.
• Own verification convergence across RTL, gates, and silicon.
• Validate the effectiveness of power features on silicon.
• Conduct studies and contribute to Performance/Watt improvement ideas.
• Help build power management solutions and drive innovation in energy efficiency across NVIDIA's product portfolio.

What you'll need

• B.Tech. or M.Tech.
• 2+ 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 and 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 such as UPF/CPF or similar.
• Experience with static power check tools such as VCLP/CLP or similar.
• Experience with dynamic power verification tools such as VCS-NLP or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and the ability and desire to work as a great teammate.
• Good programming skills, with Python preferred.
• Good skills with object-oriented programming and design preferred.
• Exposure to power analysis tools such as PTPX and EPS, or exposure to lab setups for power measurements such as scope/DAQ, with the ability to analyze board-level power issues, is a plus.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.