Arm
Senior Principal SOC Power Lead
$323K–$437K
San Jose, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
About the job
Leads a small team responsible for pre- and post-silicon SoC power analysis, modeling, optimization, and convergence to product power targets.
What you'll do
- Lead power engineers and coordinate power work across architecture, design, verification, and product teams.
- Drive power analysis, modeling, sign-off, and optimization from architecture definition through productization.
- Define workflows and project plans to improve accuracy, turnaround time, and correlation to silicon.
What they ask for
- Expertise in RTL- and netlist-based power analysis and sign-off flows, EDA tools, and SoC physical design and simulation/emulation.
- Knowledge of ASIC power-efficiency dependencies, including technology node, mixed Vt design, libraries, voltage, and power-domain partitioning.
- Experience driving multiple projects and mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience creating workload scenarios in simulation and emulation; strong technical leadership and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Understanding of software use cases, benchmarks, workloads, and hardware low-power features.
- Python for automation and modeling; SoC use-case power-budget decomposition to IP budgets.
Pay
$323,000-$437,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
RTL, Netlist, EDA, VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium
AI focus
The posting states that AI may be used to support application preparation, but not to complete assigned assessment tasks. It does not describe AI-related job duties.
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