Position: Silicon Power Benchmarking Lab Engineer

Location: On-site in Sunnyvale

Pay rate: $90-120/hour

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with SW and FW engineers; and help in building and preparing custom benchmarking code.
• Perform board-level power measurement of Compute IP cores (DSP & CPU) of SoC devices, while running various workloads.
• Debug power measurement lab systems; identify sources of measurement errors and take steps in removing them
• Correlate the measured power with simulated (RTL, Netlist) data
• Post-process the measured data, e.g. by extracting targeted IP power data from baseline, filter measurement noise.
• Subsequently extract meaningful information for presentation, as well as documenting them

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 Years of experience of board level power measurements at labo
• Familiar with CPU or DSP power measurements (device level) at labo
• Familiar with lab equipment for data acquisition, debug probe, data post-processing and others
• Some experience with C/C coding for benchmark code development/modification
• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with embedded CPU/DSP such as ARM, TI, Tensilica or Hexagon DSP
• Experience with Lotherbuch debugger probe, NIDAQ Data acquisition equipment
• Matlab, Python, Perl (or similar) scripting and data-post-processing tools
• Excel for model fitting, data visualization and analysis
• Diagnostic code development in C/C language
• Experience with PTPX power flow and RTL/Gate simulation

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

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• Hiring diverse talent
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• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

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