System Power Engineer, Devices and Services

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with working in system or SoC level power modeling, power estimation, data analytics and profiling.
• 2 years of experience with working in modeling and automation using Python and SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with mobile phone hardware subsystems including applications processor, cellular modem, graphics, multimedia, display, memory, Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi).
• Experience with mobile phone workloads in multimedia processing, camera pipeline, render and display processing or cellular modem/Wi-Fi processing.
• Experience with power measurement tools such as Monsoon, digital multimeter.
• Experience with Android tools like adb, Systrace, Git.
• Knowledge of mobile devices including hardware and software.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

About the job
Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

The Pixel System Architecture team is responsible for defining the Systems for Pixel devices from concept to volume production to post deployment.

In this role, you will play a critical role in shaping the mobile devices by pushing the boundaries of power efficiency leveraging real-world analytics and device modeling.Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop system level power model for battery life projection and analysis.
• Define, develop, or utilize tools and methods for detailed power analysis of subsystems in order to enable use case level analysis.
• Work with cross-functional hardware, software, and systems teams to perform power/performance trade-off analysis and optimizations for use-cases.
• Propose and drive implementation of power optimization features across hardware and software.
• Participate in power and performance benchmarking of hardware (e.g., System on a chip (SoC), central processing unit (CPU), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs), etc), software (e.g., firmware, kernel, Android/iOS, and more), and applications (e.g., multimedia, Generative AI, etc) across internal and external platforms.

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