Power Management Lab Technician

The Role

The Processor and System Power Management Lab Technician at Ampere Computing will be a part of the Silicon Power and Performance Tuning (SPPT) team and works with a highly talented, motivated team with wide variety of experience levels in hardware to software and architecture to post-silicon tuning. You will support various power management lab setups, running stress tests and experiments, collecting data, and analyzing and debugging issues on Ampere SoCs using internal validation and customer reference boards. Attention to detail, a fault detection mindset, thinking out of the box, quality first, and making decisions backed by data are some of the important characteristics expected in this role. As a member of this team, you will get exposure to post-Silicon bring-up, functional validation of power management features, power/performance analysis, and tuning, all the way to production support of Ampere’s server SoC platforms. The role is not just about being a point-of-contact in the lab, but also includes contributing to developing and harnessing new ideas, challenging conventions, and providing creative solutions for current and future Ampere product post-silicon validation.

What the Team wants you to know

The Processor and System Power Management Lab Technician is expected to be more than just test execution or data collection worker. Knowledge and experience with hardware platforms, hardware testing methodologies, and some understanding of debug techniques is required.

What you'll do

• Support post-silicon validation of system power and processor power management validation activities including both HW and SW
• Use existing infrastructure for running tests and metrics collection - work with engineers to execute test plans and preform experiments, collect data, and present to engineers.
• Acquire and maintain parts, systems, and equipment, working with platform delivery and test engineering teams.
• Bringup and maintain validation systems and lab, working with other domain leads.
• Use logic analyzers, debuggers, oscilloscopes, and thermal units in a post silicon environment.

What you'll bring

• Experience with post-silicon testing in a hardware lab environment and/or system test.
• Experience working with debuggers (Lauterbach/OCD).
• Good understanding of different types of PCIe devices/speeds, DDR, and their use in hardware systems.
• Team player with ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Server CPU & SoC testing
• Knowledge of SoC package, board components and their usage

Education & Prior Experience

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in technical areas specified above

Pay and Benefits

Ampere offers a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, stock, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $88,000 and $146,000. We also offer an annual bonus program tied to internal company goals and annual meritocratic stock awards that enable our employees to participate in the success of the company. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week. Beyond compensation and benefits, our passionate teams thrive in an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more - all in service of inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We look forward to sharing more about our career opportunities through interviews.

Perks in Santa Clara - Headquarters

• Office has panoramic views of Silicon Valley
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Garage parking, including charging stations and bike parking
• Gym and café on campus
• Walking distance to restaurants, shops, Light rail, and train stations
• Jogging and pedestrian trails
• Healthy snacks, espresso, and drinks
• Standing desks/Ergo friendly desk set-up
• Game room, including ping-pong
• Unlimited Flextime and 10 paid holidays

Our Company

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come.

Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power and performance, delivering results that matter most.

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