Senior Silicon Power and Thermal Controllers Engineer
$168,000–$310,500 year
Hybrid · Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Silicon Power and Thermal Controllers Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and productizing power-performance and thermal-control mechanisms inside GPUs, CPUs, and SoCs. Collaborate across firmware, hardware, software, and design/power-architecture teams from specification through productization; drive debug of power-limiting constraints and deliver customizations to unlock performance within thermal envelopes. Deliver system-level power optimizations spanning silicon, platform, software, and manufacturing for datacenter accelerators to low-power client devices. Partner with the SCG Tools team to advance modeling, analysis, and test infrastructure; validate features across bring-up through production silicon and manage WARs and productized fixes through to confirmation. Translate complex power, thermal, and performance signals into decision-ready options for POR, binning, and program-impacting risks. Work with system architects, chip/board designers, software/firmware engineers, power-architecture engineers, Product Definition Engineers, and ATE engineers in a fast-moving environment. Desired background includes AI productivity tools usage for power debug/modeling/analysis, demonstrated perf-per-watt or thermal-policy feature shipping at scale, and cross-functional/global collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 6+ years implementing power and thermal controllers in firmware for GPU, CPU, or SoC products
- Hands-on experience with system-level silicon bring-up and validation, DVFS, power characterization and modeling, performance analysis, and perf-per-watt optimization
- Background in implementing system-level features, thermal policies, and data-analysis and statistics workflows
- Solid understanding of digital design, circuit analysis, CPU/GPU/SoC architecture, PTPX, advanced process technologies, and transistor/device physics
- Demonstrated experience operating across globally distributed and offshore engineering teams
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate complex post-silicon signals into crisp, decision-ready options for executive leadership
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