Senior Staff Engineer, Power Design

About the role

Located in Austin, Texas, the Staff Engineer, Electrical Design - Power develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. You will research system ideas and draw up plans for these systems, capture them in schematics and system specifications, and provide support throughout manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Work with guidance and support from Sr. Staff and Principal-level engineers
• Design, develop and implement technical solutions for complex projects
• Participate in project planning and scheduling
• Propose innovative solutions for performance, reliability, and features of system or product
• Provide technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers
• Review and interpret customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact
• Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions
• Develop and lead deployment strategies and plans
• Lead and manage schematic design, Bills of material, power tree, drawings, board layout, and cross‑functional design reviews
• Lead power bring‑up, debugging, and support for manufacturing assembly, and deployment
• Lead relationships with key vendors and partners
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations, and share within team
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams
• Analyze and create reports and documentation of specifications, design, testing, debugging, etc.
• May be a recognized expert (go‑to person) in one or more technical areas

Qualifications

• 7+ years' of related experience
• Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

• Experienced in power design of single/multi‑phase DC/DC converter, point‑of‑load converter, LDO, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot‑swap circuitry, load switches, current sense circuit and amplifier
• Experienced in designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products
• Experienced in high‑current, low‑voltage power subsystems for CPU, GPU, ASIC, SoC, and FPGA
• Experienced in PCB stack‑up, power planes, and tools used to simulate voltage gradients
• Familiar with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent
• Proficient with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools
• Knowledge of high‑density power modules and Vertical Power Delivery (knowledge on Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) is a plus)
• Experienced with power integrity tools such as PowerDC or equivalent and board level evaluation
• Experienced with design and troubleshooting of power management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID and SVI2/3
• Experienced with defining specifications and validation of power connectors, cable assemblies and fuses
• Familiar with NPI hardware design and deployment cycle
• Experienced with development of test automation for power validation (a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to present to various audiences effectively

Pay

$128,000 - 170,000 USD/year