Sr. SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning
Company websiteamazon.com (Amazon, opens in new tab)
Base salary $213,000 to $287,500
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Cupertino, CA +1 more
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- LocationCupertino, CA +1 more
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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All places named
- Cupertino, CA
- San Diego, CA
About this job
Our Machine Learning Acceleration (MLA) team develops the Inferentia and Trainium SoCs that are used to power today’s AI workloads in datacenters all around the world. As a Sr. SoC Power Engineer, you’ll contribute to the project at the ground level by modeling and estimating power at every stage of the design from early RTL to final netlist and by driving ways to reduce power consumption of our machine learning accelerators.
We’re searching for an experienced SoC Power engineer with a background in Power analysis with a proven track record of handling challenges at scale. In this role, you’ll be working directly with architects, designers, verification engineers, software teams, and Physical Design experts - defining best practices to reduce power and model power consumption with high accuracy.
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for full chip power analysis & modelling at various stages of design (RTL to gate level netlist)
- Develop and maintain dashboards for power rollups
- Work with designers, architects, Verification engineers and Physical Design engineers to develop vectors for IR analysis, Thermal analysis and power estimation
- Give feedback to designers and architects on how to reduce power
- Make power measurements in the lab and correlate back to simulations.
- Work with Emulation engineers to model chip-level power consumption
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
- BS + 6yrs or MS + 5yrs or PhD + 3yr in EE/CS
- Expert on power analysis tools like PrimePower, PowerArtist or similar
- Deep, circuit-level understanding of chip power
- Ability to give feedback to RTL designers and Physical Designers on how to reduce power
- Highly proficient with scripting language (Tcl, Perl, Python or similar)
- Good understanding of Physical Design, EM/IR, Power Integrity, and Thermal at the die, package, board, and server level
- Some experience with lab equipment and capable of doing lab power analysis
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- Familiarity with Make or similar for automation of power rollups
- Experience with RTL design (System verilog)
- Familiarity with EMIR analysis tools (Redhawk / Voltus)
- Experience with Zebu Emulator platform
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USA, CA, Cupertino - 213,000.00 - 287,500.00 USD annually
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($213,000) is above 68% of the 1,731 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 14 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $184,000; the middle half runs from $154,300 to $224,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingSr. SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning$213,000 to $287,500
Director, Selling Partner User Experience$216,400 to $292,800
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Principal, CTV Measurement, Amazon Ads Strategy & Business Development$213,000 to $288,100
Senior System Architect, Hardware Architecture$213,000 to $287,500
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Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Sr. SoC Power Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cloud Scale Machine Learning (this listing) | $213,000 - $287,500 |
| Director, Selling Partner User Experience | $216,400 - $292,800 |
| Sr Performance Validation Engineer | $213,000 - $287,500 |
| Principal, CTV Measurement, Amazon Ads Strategy & Business Development | $213,000 - $288,100 |
| Senior System Architect, Hardware Architecture | $213,000 - $287,500 |
| Software Development Manager, Core Search | $212,700 - $287,700 |
| Software Dev Manager, Amazon EMR | $212,700 - $287,700 |
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- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-19
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USA, CA, Cupertino - 213,000.00 - 287,500.00 USD annually
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