Senior FPGA Power Management Engineer Job Listing at AMD in San Jose, CA (Job ID 80143-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE: 

We are seeking an experienced FPGA Power Management Engineer to join AMD's FPGA Power Architecture team, helping bring adaptive, workload‑aware power management capabilities into next‑generation FPGA platforms.

In this role, you will architect, implement, and validate closed‑loop DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) and adaptive voltage scaling systems, bridging architecture, RTL, firmware, and lab validation. This is a hands‑on position with real impact on production silicon, focused on improving performance‑per‑watt across demanding data center and defense use cases.

As an early hire in this effort, you will play a key role in shaping how power intelligence is designed, validated, and deployed across AMD FPGA platforms.

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate brings a strong background in silicon or FPGA power management, with demonstrated experience translating architectural power goals into working, measurable systems.

You are comfortable working across abstraction levels—from power‑performance modeling and architecture simulation to RTL, firmware integration, and lab bring‑up—and enjoy collaborating with silicon, firmware, and validation teams to ship robust, scalable solutions.

This role is best suited for someone who has done power optimization in real hardware, understands the trade‑offs involved, and is motivated to push performance‑per‑watt boundaries in complex systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Design and implement closed-loop DVFS control subsystems on FPGA to deliver power savings while preserving timing margins across workloads.
• Develop power–performance optimization models (e.g., Energy-Delay Product) to determine optimal voltage–frequency operating points for compute-intensive kernels.
• Drive timing closure for DVFS-enabled logic islands, including timing-constrained synthesis and place-and-route.
• Lead silicon bring-up and power characterization, using lab instrumentation to measure voltage droop, power-grid transients, and power profiles.
• Partner with silicon design, firmware, and validation teams to deliver scalable, production-ready power management solutions

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Demonstrated experience optimizing power consumption and performance using techniques such as DVFS and AVS.
• Strong background in power‑performance modeling using metrics such as EDP, PPW, or MIPS/W.
• Hands‑on RTL design experience in Verilog / SystemVerilog, including AXI4‑Lite interfaces.
• Experience with modern FPGA platforms, including Xilinx UltraScale+ or Versal; familiarity with Intel Agilex is a plus.
• Experience with hardware/firmware co‑design, spanning bare‑metal or RTOS‑based systems.
• Solid understanding of VLSI fundamentals, timing closure, CDC, and metastability.
• Practical experience with lab bring‑up, power integrity, telemetry, and power control interfaces (e.g., PMBus, SVI3).
• Familiarity with statistical power analysis techniques is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across global teams. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Ph.D. or M.S. in Electrica Engineering preferred

LOCATION: 

• San Jose, CA or Austin, TX preferred, flexibility may be considered for exceptional candidates.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.