Principal Engineer, Power Electronics - Milpitas, California, United States
Originally posted 26 June 2026 by the employer — open 87 days.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer, Power Electronics, you will define the architecture of power delivery components from grid to chip. This role focuses on power delivery for AI computing systems within data centers.
What you'll do
- Provide leadership, planning, and design for power delivery from data center power drop through delivery to systems and chips.
- Establish the power roadmap and work with vendors to integrate new technologies into system engineering.
- Specify hardware and firmware for rack-level power shelves, focusing on design for resiliency.
- Set power policies for data centers, including power buffer/oversubscription, job scheduling based on power, and monitoring.
- Ensure IT power robustness against grid disturbances and compatibility with grid power requirements.
- Develop and test hardware prototypes for new concepts in power delivery.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with specialized knowledge of Power Engineering.
- Demonstrated ability in power system and delivery architecture, design, and development.
- Experience with rack-level hardware design, including servers, storage, networking, and power distribution.
- Proficiency in power hardware and firmware development and debugging.
- Ability to apply current VRM, TLDR, and POL technologies.
- Understand manufacturing capabilities and limitations of new technology.
Skills: power delivery, data center power, rack-level power shelves, VRM, TLDR, power roadmap
This role has been open 86 days — well above the 72-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
72 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 | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (71 roles · 25 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 71 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 7 | 1337 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 58 d | 72 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: power delivery, data center power, rack-level power shelves, VRM, TLDR, power roadmap
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 15 open roles · median 76 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 39 d
- Analog Devices · 6 open roles · median 82 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 6 open roles · median 185 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 90 d
- Infineon Technologies · 5 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 71 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 25 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.