Product Power Engineer - United States
$178,848 - $218,592 USD yearly
Originally posted 13 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on optimizing power for RISC-V CPU designs.
About the role
This role involves working across teams to collect, analyze, and optimize design power.
What you'll do
- Collect and analyze SiFive IP power consumption.
- Guide architecture and design to optimize power efficiency.
- Correlate power models with RTL and Silicon.
- Innovate ways to improve power analysis flows.
What you'll need
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Architecture.
- 5+ years of experience in power benchmarking, analysis, and modeling.
- Experience with power impacts at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels.
- Good knowledge of computer architecture of high performance out-of-order CPU designs.
- Working experience in guiding trade-off between performance and power.
- Experience with ASIC power analysis and optimization.
Skills: power analysis, power optimization, CPU designs, ASIC power, RTL
This role has been open 39 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1070
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Median days open
62 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 | SiFive | All employers we track in this specialty (1070 roles · 105 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 1070 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 86 | 3299 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 78 d | 62 d (+16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: power analysis, power optimization, CPU designs, ASIC power, RTL
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 153 open roles · median 58 d
- Synopsys · 87 open roles · median 35 d
- AMD · 76 open roles · median 40 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 51 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 42 open roles · median 90 d
- NVIDIA · 41 open roles · median 62 d
How we counted: 1070 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 105 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.