ASIC Power Engineer, Principal - Canada
$200,000 - $300,000 USD yearly
This role owns power architecture, estimation, optimization, and verification across Positron's AI accelerator roadmap.
About the role
This role owns power architecture, estimation, optimization, and verification across Positron's AI accelerator roadmap.
What you'll do
- Own the overall chip power strategy, defining approaches for dynamic power, leakage, clock power, memory power, interconnect power, SerDes power, idle power, and peak power.
- Develop accurate power models across the full development lifecycle, from early architectural estimation through RTL and gate-level estimation.
- Drive power optimization techniques including clock gating, operand isolation, power gating, voltage islands, and multi-Vt optimization.
- Partner with the backend team on IR drop, electromigration (EM), power distribution, and power grid planning.
- Own power-aware simulation and UPF verification.
- Partner closely with Architecture, RTL, Backend, Firmware, Thermal, Packaging, and System Engineering teams to align power decisions.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of ASIC design experience.
- Deep expertise in low-power design techniques and methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with UPF/CPF power specification and verification flows.
- Expert-level proficiency with PrimePower and Joules or equivalent power analysis tools.
- Strong background working with advanced process nodes.
- A solid grasp of RTL design and its impact on chip power.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI accelerator architectures.
- Familiarity with LPDDR and HBM memory interfaces.
- Working knowledge of PCIe.
- Experience with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS).
- Exposure to thermal modeling.
- Hands-on experience with silicon power validation.
Skills: power, ASIC, AI inference, performance per watt, power efficiency
This role has been open 54 days — well below the 70-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Management
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Open roles in category
71
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Median days open
70 d
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Median salary
$169k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Positron AI | All employers we track in this specialty (71 roles · 25 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 71 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 1 | 1339 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 54 d | 70 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: power, ASIC, AI inference, performance per watt, power efficiency
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 15 open roles · median 74 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 37 d
- Analog Devices · 6 open roles · median 80 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 6 open roles · median 183 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 88 d
- Infineon Technologies · 5 open roles · median 71 d
How we counted: 71 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 25 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.