Software Engineer, Trace-Driven Simulator Development
Samsung Semiconductor · San Jose, CA · Power & Thermal Lab
About this role
Samsung Semiconductor is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Performance Optimization. Compensation is listed at $138,000–$206,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Department
- Power & Thermal Lab
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Job description
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The engineer develops and extends the trace‑driven power/thermal simulation engine, integrating power macromodels, workload traces, and thermal solvers into a coherent, scalable simulation flow.
Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office in alignment with our Flexible Work policy
Reports to: SVP, R&D (Power & Thermal Lab)
What You’ll Do
- Implement and optimize trace‑driven power and thermal simulation engines.
- Integrate IP‑level power macromodels into system‑level simulation.
- Manage a time‑indexed simulation flow across power and thermal domains.
- Generate transient power maps and perform spatiotemporal hotspot analysis.