Principal Engineer, Power Electronics - Milpitas, California, United States
Originally posted 26 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Graphcore is seeking a Principal Engineer, Power Engineering to aid in defining the architecture of the power delivery components from grid to chip. The role addresses power delivery from data center power drops down to board-level VRM, TLDR, and POL technologies.
What you'll do
- Provide planning and design for power delivery from data center power drops through systems and chips. - Establish the power roadmap, collaborating with vendors to align system engineering and power vendor technology roadmaps. - Specify hardware and firmware for rack-level power shelves and design for resiliency. - Set power policies in the data center for power buffer/oversubscription, power-based job scheduling, and power quality fault monitoring and accommodation. - Apply VRM, TLDR, and POL technologies to board and system-level power regulation components to increase efficiency. - Provide guidance to power equipment manufacturers, ODMs, and engineering teams on testing and validation procedures for power hardware and firmware.
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.
Skills: power delivery, data center power, rack-level power shelves, VRM, TLDR, power roadmap
This role has been open 119 days — well above the 90-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
90 d
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Median salary
$165k
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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 · 22 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 71 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 3 | 1439 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 119 d | 90 d (+29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
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 92 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 71 d
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 65 d
- Analog Devices · 5 open roles · median 91 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 5 open roles · median 217 d
- AMD · 4 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 71 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 22 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Oct 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.