Performance and Power Analysis Engineer, Sunnyvale, Bay Area, CA
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Cohesive Technologies is a global IT Services & Solutions company providing IT Staffing Services and Application Development Services necessary for technology leaders to deliver business value. We help our people and clients succeed by leveraging our expertise, deep industry and market knowledge, proprietary assessment tools and techniques, and project delivery methodologies. Through relationships with thousands of specialized professionals, we bring an unparalleled ability to match talent with opportunities by assessing, recruiting, developing and engaging the best and brightest people for our clients. We combine broad geographic presence, world-class solutions and a tailored, consultative approach to help our people and clients achieve higher performance and outstanding results.
Position: Performance and Power Analysis Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, Bay Area, CA
Type: Full-Time
- As a Performance and Power Analysis Engineer, you will be at the forefront of optimizing the efficiency and performance of cutting-edge augmented reality.
- Your primary focus will be on identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks, conducting power characterization, and extracting system usage behaviors from complex workloads.
- You will design and implement micro-benchmarks to stress-test and evaluate system components.
- Additionally, you will lead efforts in measuring and analyzing silicon performance, power, and thermal characteristics.
- By collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to the development of high performance, energy-efficient embedded systems, ensuring they meet stringent power and thermal constraints.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze performance bottlenecks and conduct power characterization for various systems.
- Extract system-usage behavior from workloads and design micro-benchmarks for targeted analysis.
- Lead efforts in silicon performance, power, and thermal measurement and analysis.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, including NoCs, memory subsystems, and heterogeneous compute principles.
- Knowledge of power concepts, trade-offs, and low power design principles.
- Hands-on experience with performance profilers and power measurement tools.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++ or Python, Assembly (e.g., ARM, RISC-V, x86), and scripting.
- BSEE, MSEE, CS degree, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in optimizing power and performance under thermal constraints on embedded devices.
- Deep knowledge of power management principles, including DVFS and thermal management.
- Experience with bare-metal programming and micro-benchmarking.
- Familiarity with tools for gathering and interpreting performance counters, such as perf, VTune, and DS5-Streamline.
- Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly within a team environment. Personal characteristics:
- Team player
- Proactiveness in collaborating and execution
- Flexibility to switch technical context
- Willingness to learn new methods/tools/processes
- Ability to prioritize, multitask, and take ownership
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Cohesive Technologies is an equal access/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.
