Microsoft
Senior Principal Power Management Architect
$166K–$331K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Raleigh, NC
Hillsboro, OR - Experience
- 7+ years with a doctorate, 10+ years with a master's degree, or 12+ years with a bachelor's degree; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Education
- Doctorate, Master's Degree, or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads power-management architecture and optimization across silicon, firmware, operating systems, and computing platforms, from design through production.
What you'll do
- Define power-management architecture, low-power features, telemetry, sensing, and control interfaces across silicon and platforms.
- Develop and validate power, performance, and thermal strategies using benchmarks, characterization, and workload analysis.
- Coordinate cross-functional technical decisions, review designs, mentor engineers, and advise roadmap decisions.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of technical engineering experience; or Master's Degree in one of these fields and 10+ years; or Bachelor's Degree in one of these fields and 12+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Provide proof of citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected status for export-control eligibility assessment; citizenship/status verification is required.
Nice to have
- Industry experience in silicon or system power architecture, with technical leadership across multiple product generations.
- Expertise in power-management architecture, low-power design, firmware and software policies, telemetry, thermal management, and hardware-software co-design.
Pay
USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year (base pay); USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year (base pay)
Tools
dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, clock and power gating, firmware, operating-system, voltage-regulator, SoC, RTL, telemetry
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