Power Delivery and Voltage Regulator Validation Engineer – Datacenter
$180,500 - $270,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer — open 73 days.
Work on power delivery for Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC.
About the role
This role involves validating power delivery and voltage regulators in server-class platforms. Your focus will be on ensuring robust, efficient, and reliable power delivery on platforms based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC.
What you'll do
- Lead power delivery bring-up, including rail sequencing verification and initial PDN health checks.
- Define and own VR and PDN validation strategy and test plans from EVT through PVT.
- Validate VRs, power rails, sequencing, margining, VR control loops stability, OCP, and VR efficiency curves.
- Perform hands-on debug of power delivery issues including rail failures, sequencing faults, VR anomalies, and PDN resonance issues.
- Develop or maintain automation tools/scripts (Python, Shell, TCL) for VR testing automation.
- Contribute to VR design reviews, component selection, and design-for-validation (DFV) feedback to hardware design teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 8 years of experience in board or platform hardware validation.
- Hands-on experience with power delivery/power integrity in server-class or high-performance platforms.
- Strong understanding of power sequencing and board-level debug.
- Strong hands-on experience validating multi-phase voltage regulators, including control loop stability, efficiency, transient response, and PDN characterization.
- Proficiency with lab equipment: High-bandwidth oscilloscopes (1GHz), Eloads, Bench supplies, Differential probes, current probes, PMBus/SMBus interface tools.
- Understanding of VR topologies (e.g., buck, multi-phase) and control modes (CCM, DCM, AVP).
- Familiarity with PMBus/AVSBus protocols and VR telemetry interfaces.
- Automation and scripting experience (Python preferred).
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- 10 years of platform power bring-up or validation experience.
- Experience with PI simulation tools (e.g., Simplis/Simetrix, ANSYS SIwave) for model-to-hardware correlation.
- Familiarity with 2.5D/3D packaging technologies and their impact on power delivery.
- Experience with AI/ML compute platforms and their high-current, fast-transient power delivery requirements.
- Experience with open compute / hyperscale server power delivery architectures (e.g., OCP, CRPS, ORv3).
- Familiarity with VR co-design processes and feedback into hardware design teams.
- Experience supporting manufacturing, factory, or field escalations.
Skills: power delivery, voltage regulator, VR validation, PDN, power sequencing, transient response
This role has been open 72 days — well above the 58-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Conversion
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Open roles in category
53
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (53 roles · 24 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 53 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 73 | 1337 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 72 d | 58 d (+14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: power delivery, voltage regulator, VR validation, PDN, power sequencing, transient response
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 32 d
- Renesas Electronics · 5 open roles · median 39 d
- Power Integrations · 4 open roles · median 49 d
- Analog Devices · 3 open roles · median 58 d
- Navitas Semiconductor · 3 open roles · median 24 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 124 d
How we counted: 53 open Power Electronics (Power Conversion) roles from 24 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 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.