{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d2d77cbc2c86dfd086624ad1","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d2d77cbc2c86dfd086624ad1","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d2d77cbc2c86dfd086624ad1","title":"Fellow Power Architect, Silicon Design Engineering","description":"WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING\n\nAt AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.\n\nTogether, we advance your career.\n\nTHE ROLE:\nWe are looking for a driven and diligent power architecture technical leader to join the SOC Architecture team in the AMD 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. If you wish to change the world by driving innovation for industry leading power performance and battery life on AMD’s Client and handheld products, this is the right opportunity for you.\n\nTHE PERSON:\nThe 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.\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\n\nAs a technical thought leader for power architecture group, work with internal and external strategic partners, customers and industry standards to define AMD power roadmap and competitive targets for bounding box workloads.\n\nWork involves detailed workload analysis to identify high value opportunities in IP, subsystem and SOC to increase power efficiency wrt performance/watt and battery life.\n\nDetail oriented visionary, who can make clear process/flow recommendations and technically drive deployment across teams to achieve power bounding box targets.\n\nCoordinate with world-wide teams including SOC architects, SOC and IP design teams, Systems engineering and Product Engineering to ensure power feature full realization from concept, to implementation, verification, FW/SW enablement, emulation and Silicon attainment.\n\nLead team in modeling complex power use case scenarios across SoC roadmap, correlating power estimates with pre‑silicon model updates at each SOC maturity milestone to final tape‑out PTPX numbers, real life workload correlation in emulation as well as post silicon, and ensure aggressive power objectives and goals are met for customer delivery.\n\nCreate innovative power reduction initiatives and methodologies and drive cross‑organization alignment with SoC and IP teams for implementation towards power convergence.\n\nResponsible 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.\n\nDefine, align, and drive power feature definitions with cross‑BU synergy in close collaboration with SoC and power architects.\n\nOptimize PC use cases in terms of absolute power and in relative performance per watt.\n\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\n\nThought leader with deep understanding of semiconductor power architecture and power delivery including on‑die, substrate, silicon interposer and PCB power delivery.\n\nExtensive experience with power integrity/ signal integrity analysis, droop management/mitigation and capacitor types and performance.\n\nExperience defining and analyzing workloads, system bottlenecks and optimizing computing systems for performance and power efficiency.\n\nExperience with architecting new SOC power features and low power states for improving battery life and guide prototyping the features.\n\nAdept at power evaluation, modeling, simulation and silicon attainment.\n\nDemonstrated ability to co‑own power feature enablement working with Firmware algorithm and software driver teams.\n\nDemonstrated ability to write detailed internal and customer facing architecture specifications.\n\nC/C++ programming, automation & scripting languages, Excel, and software engineering concepts desirable.\n\nGeneral familiarity with microprocessor and/or PC architecture.\n\nSelf‑driven individual, having ability to work independently to tackle complex cross discipline problems. Clear methodical problem solver bridging and collaborating across a world‑wide team.\n\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\n\nPhD or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics.\n\n12+ years of relevant experience.\n\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance\n\nAMD 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. 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