Electrical Engineer, System Power Architect, Spectacles, L5

Overview

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s core products are Snapchat, Lens Studio, and Spectacles. Spectacles is home to our hardware products with a world-class research & development team focused on pushing the boundaries of what a camera can be, specifically overlaying computing on the real world.

Next Generation Spectacles are our first pair of glasses that bring augmented reality to life.

We’re looking for a System Power Architect Engineer, Devices to join Team Snap! Working from hardware design centers in Palo Alto or Santa Monica, CA, you’ll join the Snap Lab Hardware Engineering group responsible for the system power model with the objective to deliver first-in-class consumer electronics hardware.

• Power Model Ownership:
  Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a system-level power model that accurately predicts the power consumption of all hardware components and software activities across different operational states and use cases
• Load Characterization:
  Understand, characterize, and model power consumption for a wide array of system loads, including SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, memory, displays, wireless radios, sensors, actuators, and peripherals across varying functional modes
• Battery Modeling:
  Integrate battery model (ESR) into use-case based run time estimates as well as HW system DCR and grounding requirements
• Use Case Analysis:
  Collaborate with product and system architecture teams to define and model various use cases and translate into quantifiable power profiles
• Early Power Estimation:
  Extract and integrate pre-silicon power estimates and power breakdown data for chips under development, providing crucial feedback for architecture choices
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Partner effectively with submodule teams (e.g., silicon design, software, firmware, display, camera, wireless, audio, thermal) to gather accurate power data, understand power budgets, and identify optimization opportunities
• Benchmarking & Validation:
  Hand-on measurement of power and performance data from prototypes and compare against model predictions across hardware and software features. Debug discrepancies, identify root causes, and refine models
• Power Optimization Guidance:
  Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to hardware and software teams for power reduction strategies, trade-offs, and design optimizations
• Documentation:
  Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for power models, assumptions, methodologies, test procedures, and analysis reports

• Knowledge of system architecture and subsystem metrics that impact performance for SOCs, Camera, Connectivity, Cellular, PMICs, and Battery
• Knowledge of power management concepts and power delivery
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• BS/BA degree in Electrical Engineering, related field, or equivalent years of experience
• 7+ years of relevant experience in electrical or hardware engineering

• MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Demonstrated experience developing and shipping consumer electronic products at scale
• Experience with integrated circuit design such as VHDL or analog design
• Knowledge of layout strategies to meet Power Delivery Network impedance targets or in deriving power impedance masks
• Excellent process development and documentation skills

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