Principal System Architect - San Jose, United States
$180,000 - $225,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on multiphase VR for datacenter products.
About the role
This role is responsible for driving solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges for datacenter products serving AI customers, working directly with customers to define roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Interface with customer systems engineers to understand challenges and value drivers.
- Analyze various VR approaches.
- Build collateral to evangelize proposals and support customer engagement.
- Prepare executive summary material for discussions with Sr Leaders and key customers.
- Support customer engagements to gain consensus on proposals and drive to revenue.
- Support design, FW, and SW teams during execution with clarification or necessary compromise.
What you'll need
- 15+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in semiconductor industry.
- Understanding of general power architecture and product types related to CPUs and other high current ASICs.
- Experience with multiphase VRs or other datacenter related power products.
- Comprehension of topics including magnetics design, passive component selection, power device driver challenges, and real-world implementation challenges.
- Experience with embedded SoCs including cross-functional collaboration with HW/FW/SW teams.
- Excellent technical and executive communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with high level modeling tools like SIMPLIS.
Skills: power architecture, multiphase VR, embedded SoC, system architecture
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 80-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
468
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (468 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 468 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 87 | 3198 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 91 d | 80 d (+11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: power architecture, multiphase VR, embedded SoC, system architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 71 open roles · median 86 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 69 d
- Apple · 36 open roles · median 10 d
- AMD · 35 open roles · median 65 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 113 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 21 open roles · median 115 d
How we counted: 468 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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 Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.