Arm
Senior Principal SOC Power Lead
$309K–$417K
Austin, Texas +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
San Diego, California
About the job
Lead a small team delivering pre- and post-silicon SoC power analysis, modeling, and optimization to meet product power and performance targets.
What you'll do
- Lead power engineers and coordinate with architecture, design, verification, and product teams on power convergence.
- Drive power modeling and analysis, project planning, and delivery against product targets.
- Define workflows to improve analysis 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 factors, including technology node, mixed Vt design, libraries, voltage, and power-domain partitioning.
- Experience driving multiple projects and mentoring junior engineers.
- Verification experience creating workloads in simulation and emulation environments; 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
$308,600-$417,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
RTL, Netlist, EDA tools, VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium
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