Power Profiling Engineer

We are a team of 700 talented engineers, and our main office is in Lund, Southern Sweden. Primarily, we run in-house projects focusing on connected products within consumer electronics and IoT devices. We have the capability in terms of people, expertise, and labs to realize the most demanding products on the market. In the US, we have offices in San Jose and San Diego. The San Diego office is close to Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, and our office in San Jose is just by the San Jose airport. As a fast-growing company, we constantly seek open-minded, talented people who want to participate in our journey. The company culture is about sharing experiences and knowledge, and with a Nordic work culture, we strive for work-life balance and taking care of people.

Job Overview:

We seek an enthusiastic senior hands-on Power Profiling Engineer in the Bay Area. In this role, you will:

1. Power characterization of use cases and key algos on the targeted platform:

2. Bring up rapid prototyping and demo the feature on the target platform

3. Develop and maintain test plans and procedures for the power characterization of each component/block.

4. Measure and characterize the component/block power over different operation modes, efficiency, and thermal performance

5. Measure and characterize WLs, algos, and end-to-end use case power

6. Analyze power measurement results, identify potential problems, and recommend solutions

7. Automate component/subsystem/WLs/algo power profiling scripts and make it easily report and track the measurement results and conditions.

8. Build end-to-end power profiling scripts and make it easy to analyze.

9. Contribute use case power models to project new use cases

Deliverables

Power profiling and modeling:

1. Test plans, setup, procedures, build instructions.

2. Use case/component/algo power profiling reports

3. Prototype demos

4. Power/performance analysis, recommended solutions, and optimization reports detailed

5. Subsystem power modeling

6. Automated profiling scripts

7. Regression reports

Qualifications/Skills:

1. 10+ years of embedded programming and scripting with Python, bash, C/C++

2. Good understanding of mobile SoC and hardware/software interactions

3. Good knowledge of SoC DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) scheme, power and clock tree and board schematics, bench debugging

4. Familiarity with real-time operating systems, such as uCOS and FreeRTOS, including its threading, scheduler, synchronization, and resource management, is a plus

5. Familiar with Qualcomm Spectra ISP, Adreno GPU architecture, and Vulkan programming API is a plus

6. Good understanding of different DSP architectures such as HiFi2/3/5

7. Hands-on Experience in the Optimization of algorithms on DSP architecture, DSP Code Optimization, and performance measurement is a plus

8. Knowledge of perf/power workloads of mobile systems such as CPU/GPU benchmarks, speech translation, navigation, voice assistant, notification, photo, video recording, and binocular video playback is a plus

9. Able to work independently with dedication

10. A good understanding of cache hierarchy, memory bandwidth, connectivity, and the tradeoff between perf and power is a plus.

We Offer:

The annual salary range for this role is $80,000 $250,000 per year.

The Annual Salary is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, and market demand. This range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

Paid Time off/Vacation and Paid Holidays

401(k)

401(k) matching

Life insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Healthcare and Dependent Care

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Bereavement Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Employee and Customer Referral Program

For positions in California long-term and short-term disability insurance

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Last updated on Oct 16, 2023