SoC Post Silicon Performance Lead

THE PERSON:

Successful candidates in this role have broad interests in Computer Systems performance, with strong expertise in Computer Architecture, keen attention to detail, excellent collaboration and communication skills (written and spoken), ability to work independently and come up with creative solutions to challenging engineering problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop SoC Post silicon test plan, performance estimates and execution schedules.
• Drive Hardware planning and co-ordinate to meet other system bringup and performance evaluation dependencies.
• Manage silicon test plan execution, reporting and co-ordinate on performance outlier analysis.
• Drive characterization, tuning and optimization of power and performance for Cloud, Enterprise, HPC/ML/AI workloads.
• Drive system and micro-architecture level debugs and resolve silicon-level performance and power observations/discrepancies in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive the definition and execution of performance measurement methodologies and validation against pre-silicon projections.
• Work with firmware and software teams to enable and optimize performance and power management features on SoCs.
• Drive product OPN definitions by working with performance architects
• Collaborate with Software, Firmware, and IP Design teams to ensure Production Ready Silicon is tuned to be most performant for workloads that customer care about.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in managing Server SoC post silicon execution projects.
• Strong foundation in CPU core, memory, storage and I/O subsystems
• Power and performance analysis of Server class SoCs.
• Familiarity with complex cloud or enterprise software such as database, data analytics, machine learning, and relevant benchmarks such as SPECCPU, SPECjbb15, etc
• Familiarity with operating systems concepts (eg scheduling, memory management, paging, interrupt handling, etc
• Data analysis skills (Excel or Python) and presentation skills

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• B.Tech/ M.Tech/ PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or related field of study with >10 years in Processor performance/power teams.