Intel SoC Power Thermal Performance Val Opt Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

628787438

Develops and documents SOC validation requirements and tests for verification of Si designs. Investigates and resolves complex issues with hardware/BIOS/Firmware/Operating System implementations and recommends solutions. Uses analysis to resolve electrical issues.
Responsibilities and Duties:-

• Measure the electrical performance of high switching speed buck converter
• Bring-up, developing recipes for analog IPs such as Integrated Voltage Regulators (FIVR) and detailed PVT characterization of the same.
• Characterize effective resistance and static switching losses in FIVR across PVT
• Provide FIVR inputs to power recipe used for binning Intel SoC
• Run industry standard benchmarks for performance within a given power envelope
• Tune core to memory latencies and bandwidth
• Define test plan by collaborating with design, chip architects and internal workgroups
• Perform stress testing of SoC at platform level with multiple peripherals, IO and core operating concurrently and measuring peak power and worst-case current spikes (dI/dt).
• Write scripts that controls test and measurement equipment, thermal controller, silicon configuration and other test components.
• Candidate would have to collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams such as IP design, BIOS, board development, platform validation, high volume manufacturing and wafer fabrication teams to resolve complex issues affecting product health ensuring world-class products for our customers.
• Electrical validation of ADC, DACs etc in modern CPUs chipsets and SOCs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Minimum Requirements:-

• BE degree or ME degree with 5 years+ in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or closely related field
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming principles
• Experience in writing SW content in Python
• Hands on experience measuring electrical performance of analog signals using oscilloscopes, source meters, server SoC validation platforms, power and performance recipe, SOC max current, min voltage and di/dt measurements
• Excellent hands-on silicon and platform debug skills
• Experience writing and debugging software to control hardware
• Proven experience to work well in teams and provide strong independent contributions.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:-

• Experience validating power delivery systems at system level
• Experience analysing power delivery systems
• Expertise in one or more of the following domains: CPU benchmarks, Power management, Reset/Fuse, PCIe, Memory sub-system validation
• Knowledge of Computer System Architecture
• Experience with Memory, network adaptors, fabric architecture, HBM, Cache Coherency
• Experience with debug of Intel chipsets and/or CPUs
• Understanding of a subsystem HW/SW stack, including the silicon, all onboard HW components and connectors and devices, drivers, and applications
• In depth knowledge of control loops in non-isolated buck converter topology
• Experience writing Python code to automate test procedures
• Understanding of PCB layout best practices
• Understanding of statistical data analysis and design of experiments