Power Architect ( Fellow / Principle ) Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 58309-en-us)

Description

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The Role:

We are looking for a hardworking and dedicated member to join the SOC Architecture team in the AMD Client Computing and Graphics group. Power architects guide SoCs from early concept stages through design execution and post silicon. This role involves collaboration with many teams across including SoC architecture definition, IP design, integration/ physical design, platform architecture, software, firmware, packaging, and silicon validation.  Contributions have a direct impact on the power & performance of AMD's Client products.

The Person:

The candidate should have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail. The candidate must be organized, self-motivated and able to work effectively on teams large and small across multiple sites. He or she must be able to prioritize assignments and drive them to completion. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential for driving technical discussions to successful and actionable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team leader for power architecture group, work with management to define department objectives and growth plans. Make recommendations to improve processes or procedures as appropriate. Implementing changes to engineering processes based on new technologies or industry standards. Work with department management on recruiting, hiring, training, and evaluations the team.
• Coordinate with SOC architects and other departments to ensure that tasks are on schedule. Work with team and architects to define the methods for implementation and validation of features.
• Lead team in modeling complex power use case scenarios across SoC roadmap, correlating power estimates with pre-silicon PTPX and emulation environments as well as hardware, and ensure aggressive power objectives and goals are met.
• Create innovative power reduction initiatives and methodologies and drive cross-organization alignment with SoC and IP teams for implementation towards power convergence.
• Responsible for leading modeling design of experiments towards long-term integrated power-performance framework for driving power-perf improvements, voltage margining, feature ROI analysis and architectural solutions.
• Define, align, and drive power feature definitions with cross-BU synergy in close collaboration with SoC and power architects.
• Work closely with world-wide design teams on the implementation, verification, and review of power management solutions.
• Optimize PC use cases in terms of absolute power and also in relative performance per watt.

Preferred Experience

• Deep understanding of semiconductor power architecture.
• Extensive experience with creation of power delivery budgets, droop management/mitigation and capacitor types and performance.
• Experience analyzing workloads, system bottlenecks and optimizing computing systems for performance and power efficiency
• Experience with power evaluation, modeling, simulation and hardware prototyping
• Proficiency in firmware power-related algorithms and power-related software
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming, scripting languages, Excel, and software engineering concepts
• General familiarity with microprocessor and/or PC architecture
• Clear methodical problem solver.
• Ability to work independently and lead a world-wide team.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal skills

Academic Credentials

• PhD or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics.
• 15+ years of experience.

At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.