ASIC Power Management Architect

Job Title

ASIC Power Management Architect

Role Summary

Google seeks an architect to lead power-related architectural analysis and modeling for custom silicon used in consumer products. The role focuses on translating pre-silicon estimates into customer-use-case (CUJ) power models, proposing mempath architectural features, and enabling accurate end-to-end power correlation.

Experience Level

Senior — requires substantial industry experience; posting specifies approximately 8 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

The role is responsible for power-related architectural analysis, modeling, and recommendations across pre-silicon and silicon verification flows.

• Collect and analyze silicon traffic patterns for key tensor CUJs and map them to pre-silicon CUJ estimates.
• Drive architectural analysis for mempath traffic patterns and propose feature/requirement improvements to meet KPIs.
• Oversee end-to-end correlation from pre-silicon micro-benchmark power estimates to CUJ modeling estimates, validating architectural assumptions used for modeling.
• Develop algorithms, models, and analyses for alternative architecture approaches to optimize power and performance.
• Model and validate power behavior in virtual prototyping and TLM environments.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience required for success in this role.

• Minimum ~8 years experience in ASIC power management architecture.
• Experience with hardware or software power control flows and power methodology.
• Experience with power components, power modeling, and power management techniques such as DVFS/AVS.
• Experience modeling and validating designs in virtual prototyping and TLM environments.
• Knowledge of how software and architectural design decisions affect power and thermal system behavior.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience correlating pre-silicon estimates to silicon measurements and CUJ modeling.
• Prior work proposing or implementing mempath or similar microarchitectural power features.

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with emphasis on computer architecture.

About the Company

Company: Google

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA, United States

Google is a global technology company that develops Internet services and products including search, advertising, cloud computing, AI, software, hardware, and custom silicon for consumer and enterprise applications.