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As an Ambient Compute System Architecture and Power Engineer within the Low-Power AI Systems group, you will focus on performance optimization, data-path analysis, and architecture for embedded AI subsystems. You will be responsible for analyzing power-performance trade-offs across DSP and eNPU components to support XR and always-on AI workloads. Your daily work involves performing detailed memory-access analysis of cache, SRAM, and DDR to identify bottlenecks, while driving workload partitioning, software optimizations, and data reuse strategies. The role requires expertise in embedded processor architectures, RTOS, and power modeling. You will utilize Python for analysis and automation while employing lab-based power measurement tools to correlate silicon data with models. Key technical domains include fixed-point implementation, algorithm optimization, and managing the power characteristics of ML inference workloads across mobile, compute, and IoT platforms.
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SoC
Python
Shell Scripting
Power Measurement Tools
Benchmark Software
Computer Architecture
Systems Programming
Driver Development
DC Power Delivery Circuits
Hardware/Software Co-design
Automation
reverse-engineering