Platform Power Architect
About the role
The Platform Power Architect defines and owns the power delivery architecture for optical interconnect modules, from the host connector down to every rail on the electrical and photonic die. The scope spans regulator topologies, power budgets, sequencing, and PDN targets across heterogeneous packages combining SerDes-class electronics, lasers, and thermally tuned photonics.
What you'll do
- Define module and package power architecture, rail trees, regulator topologies (buck, multiphase, LDO, integrated regulators), and power domain partitioning across electrical and photonic ICs.
- Own module power budgets and industry specifications, allocating budgets across rails, operating modes, and power classes.
- Design power-up, power-down, and fault sequencing meeting host interface and CMIS requirements, including multi-rail ordering and low-power modes.
- Select regulators, PMICs, inductors, capacitors, and protection components, conducting efficiency, loss, transient, and stability analyses.
- Set PDN target impedance and decoupling strategies, partnering with SI/PI teams on package and board impedance closure and IR-drop analysis.
- Define power telemetry and control architectures covering voltage, current, and temperature monitoring, PMIC control over I2C, and CMIS telemetry reporting.
- Support bring-up and debug on prototype hardware, correlating lab measurements with simulation to close margins.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in power delivery design for high-performance ASICs, optical modules, networking, or data center hardware, including architecture-level ownership.
- Deep knowledge of DC-DC converter topologies, multiphase regulators, LDOs, PMICs, and control-loop stability.
- Hands-on experience with PDN target-impedance methodology, decoupling design, and IR-drop analysis at package and board level.
- Proficiency with simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, LTspice, or PSpice, and familiarity with PDN analysis tools such as Ansys SIwave or Cadence Sigrity PowerSI/PowerDC.
- Experience with power sequencing, protection, and fault handling in pluggable or co-packaged optical modules, alongside working knowledge of CMIS and optical module MSAs.
- Lab experience with power measurement equipment, including power analyzers, current probes, load-step testers, and injection probes for noise and PSRR testing.
Nice to have
- Master's or Ph.D. focused on power electronics or power delivery.
- Experience powering lasers, TECs, or thermal tuners for silicon photonics.
Skills: PDN, PMIC, multiphase, DC-DC, CMIS, power architecture
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First seen in our index 1 day ago, well below the 113-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Management
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Open roles in category
72
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Median days since first seen
113 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$174k
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| Metric | Mixx Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (72 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 72 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 3 | 1592 · 127 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 1 d | 113 d (+112 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $174k |
Skills observed across this category: PDN, PMIC, multiphase, DC-DC, CMIS, power architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 12 open roles · median 106 d
- Infineon Technologies · 8 open roles · median 59 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 94 d
- NVIDIA · 6 open roles · median 213 d
- Analog Devices · 5 open roles · median 114 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 5 open roles · median 240 d
How we counted: 72 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.