Full-Time

Senior SoC Power Architect

Silicon

Posted on 9/23/2025

Google

Google

10,001+ employees

Tech giant offering search, ads, cloud

Compensation Overview

$156k - $229k/yr

+ Bonus + Equity

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Mountain View, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: San Diego, CA, USA

In Person

Candidates can choose between Mountain View, CA and San Diego, CA.

Category
Electrical Engineering (2)
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Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with computer architecture concepts, including microarchitecture, cache hierarchy, pipelining, and memory subsystems.
  • 5 years of experience in SoC power management or low power design/methodology.
  • Experience with Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) low power flows and power management concepts.
Responsibilities
  • Define and drive low power solutions for Google System on a Chips (SoC) to optimize Power-Performance-Area (PPA) under peak current and thermal constraints with a focus on the CPU subsystem.
  • Define power key performance indicators and SoC/IP-level power goals, guide architecture, design and implementation to achieve power goals, create power models, perform power roll ups and track power throughout the design cycle.
  • Propose and drive power optimizations, both hardware and software, throughout the design process from concept to mass productization.
  • Drive power-performance trade-off analysis for engineering reviews and product road-map decisions.
  • Perform post-silicon characterization and productization of power features.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master's Degree or PhD in Electronics or Computer Engineering/Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture, performance and power analysis.
  • 8 years of experience in SoC power management or low power design/methodology.
  • Experience in CPU power in mobile SoCs from CPU architecture and design to schedulers, governors and post-silicon tuning for power and performance.
  • Experience with ASIC power modeling/estimation, defining power goals, power roll-ups, power/voltage domains design and low power architectures/optimization techniques.
  • Experience with software and architectural design decisions on system power and thermal behavior.
  • Experience with ASIC design flows from concept to post-silicon.

Google provides internet services and products, including a widely used search engine and a large ecosystem of tools for individuals and businesses. It works by processing user queries and ranking results with relevance and personalized data, while its advertising platforms show targeted ads to users. Its products span cloud computing (Google Cloud), productivity software (Google Workspace), and hardware like Pixel phones and Nest devices, all connected through data and machine learning. Its goal is to organize the world’s information so it is universally accessible and useful, while supporting a sustainable business model built on ads and a growing software, cloud, and hardware portfolio.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

1998

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