Samsung
Senior Software Engineer, Simulator Development
$138K–$206K
San Jose, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ years with a master’s degree, or 0+ years with a PhD.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD; the posting does not state an equivalent-experience alternative.
About the job
Develops and scales trace-driven power and thermal simulation software, integrating power models, workload traces, and thermal solvers.
What you'll do
- Implement and optimize trace-driven power and thermal simulation engines, including system-level integration of IP-level power macromodels.
- Manage time-indexed simulation across power and thermal domains; generate transient power maps and analyze spatiotemporal hotspots.
- Interface with reduced-order thermal models and CFD-calibrated solvers, while ensuring performance, scalability, and reproducibility.
What they ask for
- Strong C++ software-engineering background.
- Experience building or extending simulation frameworks.
- Familiarity with discrete-event or time-stepped simulation architectures.
- Solid software-design, debugging, and performance-optimization skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with time-indexed and event-driven simulation.
- Knowledge of numerical methods or reduced-order modeling; exposure to data-pipeline integration.
Pay
$138,000 — $206,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
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