SoC Hardware Characterization Lead, Power and Performance
Hybrid (Mountain View, CA; San Diego, CA)$240k - $333kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Lead end-to-end post-silicon validation, debugging, and optimization across voltage, frequency, and power-management architectures for Google’s custom silicon. Architect scalable silicon-software frameworks to drive platform power and performance, mentor a engineering team, and align cross-functional partners toward product launch goals.
Responsibilities
- Own the bridging chip design, architecture, product engineering, and system software to architect scalable silicon-software frameworks, accelerate power-management deliverables, and drive continuous power, performance, and platform stability optimizations.
- Direct end-to-end post-silicon validation, characterization, and debugging across advanced voltage, frequency, and power architectures, ensuring physical silicon behavior aligns with architectural intent while driving cross-functional alignment on feature value and product trade-offs.
- Partner with engineering stakeholders to optimize manufacturing test processes and production screening capabilities, fine-tuning voltage margins while safeguarding product quality standards and defect targets (DPPM).
- Mentor and guide a high-performing engineering team focused on complex system characterization, including operating limits (Fmax and Vmin), energy efficiency, and root-cause hardware stability debugging.
- Drive the long-term technology roadmap for sensing subsystems (voltage, current, and temperature) and hardware trigger mechanisms to address rising current densities and industry trends.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience with power management or low-power design/methodology.
- Experience navigating the full product silicon/SoC delivery cycle, from initial architecture definition through to post-silicon productization.
- Experience with low-power architectures or advanced power optimization techniques.
Skills
Required:Power managementPost-silicon validationSystems software coordinationLeadership
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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