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Senior Principal Power Management Architect

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-03

Core

Define end-to-end power-management architecture for complex silicon and platform environments, balancing energy efficiency, performance, thermals, and reliability.

Role type

Senior Principal IC Power Management Architect

Builds

Low-power features, power-optimization strategies, and telemetry architectures for SoCs and platforms

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design and power management

Required skills

Power-management architecture, low-power design techniques, hardware-software co-design, power-optimization strategies, sensor technologies, thermal management, power modeling, silicon characterization, telemetry analytics, workload-aware optimization

Preferred skills

Expertise in power-management firmware and algorithms, experience with CPUs/GPUs/accelerators, track record of technical innovation via patents or publications

Technologies

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, clock and power gating, idle-state management, voltage-regulator architecture, telemetry stacks, benchmark suites

Responsibilities

Architect and guide implementation of low-power features; specify power-management software and firmware interfaces; establish requirements for voltage, temperature, and activity sensors; review and optimize platform voltage-regulator architecture; lead thermal-management strategies; conduct technical reviews and mentor engineers

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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