Power and Performance Characterization Engineer
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Location: Santa Clara, CA 95051
Description:
Job Details:
Job Description:
As a Power and Performance Engineer or PnP Engineer, you will be responsible for measurement collection, results analysis, and supporting projections/estimates of Intel and competition's notebook and desktop products. This position will focus on analyzing the impact of system architectural characteristics and components, OS and software configurations on system performance and power. You will provide characterization data and analysis to internal engineering teams to set and validate performance expectations and support performance projection development. The position will start with providing data and general analysis to support projection development with a growth path to developing more sophisticated analysis and system performance projection models.
This role is for Santa Clara on-site everyday (no remote/no hybrid option).
Core responsibilities to include following:
The candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field with 3+ years of experience.
OR Master's in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field with 1+ years of experience.
Experience listed above should be a combination of the following:
Preferred requirements:
Job Type:
Experienced Hire
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location:
US, California, Santa Clara
Additional Locations:
Business group:
The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Position of Trust
N/A
Benefits:
We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here:
https://jobs.intel.com/en/benefits
Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US:
$104,890.00-$148,080.00
Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience.
Work Model for this Role
This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
Job Description:
As a Power and Performance Engineer or PnP Engineer, you will be responsible for measurement collection, results analysis, and supporting projections/estimates of Intel and competition's notebook and desktop products. This position will focus on analyzing the impact of system architectural characteristics and components, OS and software configurations on system performance and power. You will provide characterization data and analysis to internal engineering teams to set and validate performance expectations and support performance projection development. The position will start with providing data and general analysis to support projection development with a growth path to developing more sophisticated analysis and system performance projection models.
This role is for Santa Clara on-site everyday (no remote/no hybrid option).
Core responsibilities to include following:
- Bring up test platforms, including setup, calibration, and measurements, to enable performance and power measurements.
- Measure, analyze, and characterize system performance and power of CPU architectural characteristics, system hardware components, and OS and software changes.
- Work with internal engineering teams to validate performance and power data and learn the use of new architectures
- Present and publish characterization data/reports to internal engineering and projections teams to support developing performance/power models and projections.
- Develop test plans and own data collection based on study goals and customer requests
- Script and use the latest industry standard workloads for performance and power measurement.
- Investigate and use new performance and power workloads.
The candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:
- Motivated self-learner/self-starter and ability to quickly adapt to changes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field with 3+ years of experience.
OR Master's in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or related field with 1+ years of experience.
Experience listed above should be a combination of the following:
- Experienced with building and setting up x86 Windows based test platforms, installing and setting up operating systems
- Experience with x86 CPU micro-architecture.
- Experience with standard benchmarks and ability to analyze performance
- Experience with writing scripts for task automation
- Experience analyzing data for accuracy/trends
Preferred requirements:
- Familiarity with industry benchmarks is a plus (ie SPEC CPU2017, UL Procyon Productivity and AI, Geekbench, WebXPRT, etc)
- Prior experience with Intel products or other CPU products in a post-silicon engineering environment
- Experience with MS Excel
- Knowledge of Python scripting
- Experience developing technical content
Job Type:
Experienced Hire
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location:
US, California, Santa Clara
Additional Locations:
Business group:
The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Position of Trust
N/A
Benefits:
We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here:
https://jobs.intel.com/en/benefits
Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US:
$104,890.00-$148,080.00
Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience.
Work Model for this Role
This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.