Senior Power Engineer

Murata Electronics

San Jose (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Hybrid work schedule

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible health spending accounts

Paid time off

Talent Development program

Job summary

Murata Electronics seeks a Senior Power Engineer to lead technical marketing for next generation AI data center power delivery from PDB/IBC through package/on-die networks. You will work with customers and internal teams to translate challenges into quantitative requirements, roadmaps and new R&D initiatives.

Hybrid from San Jose, CA, this role emphasizes collaboration across sales, product divisions, and R&D to drive design-in and co-development opportunities.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or closely related field.
5+ years in power electronics, server/data center power architecture.
Strong DC-DC power conversion knowledge including buck and multiphase converters.
Understanding of impedance, decoupling, transient response at board/package level.
Ability to translate customer needs into measurable technical requirements.
Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage diverse stakeholders.
Ability to work independently across sites and lead projects.

Responsibilities

Analyze end-to-end AI server power delivery from rack to integrated regulators.
Translate customer needs into quantitative electrical and thermal requirements.
Identify system-level problems behind customer specifications.
Advance design-in and co-development by aligning roadmaps with R&D.
Interface among customers, sales, product divisions, and partners; drive decisions.
Travel as required for customer engagements.

Skills

Power Electronics

DC-DC power conversion

Communication skills

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or closely related field

Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (preferred)

Job description

Senior Power Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA, US, 95112

For 80 years, Murata Electronics has been a tireless innovator, committed to developing technologies that profoundly change the world around us. Our solutions are inside more state-of-the-art products than you may imagine. Additionally, we enable other global companies to turn their visions into reality - from mobile communications to computers and networking, medical devices to power solutions, smart home technologies to automotive electronics. Our past innovations drive today's technology - and our present innovations are shaping tomorrow's.

Whatever the future holds, you can be sure that Murata will be a part of it.

Why Consider This Job Opportunity

The Senior Power Engineer leads technical marketing for next generation AI data center power delivery from PDB/IBC through package/on-die delivery networks. Work directly with customers and internal engineering teams to translate emerging system challenges into quantitative requirements, technology roadmaps and new R&D initiatives.

Workplace Policy

Hybrid from San Jose, CA.

What To Expect (Essential Job Responsibilities)

Analyze end to end AI server power delivery from rack/PDB and 48V IBC stages through multiphase VRs, PoL converters, and integrated regulators.
Translate customer needs into quantitative electrical, thermal, mechanical including voltage, current efficiency, power density, transient response.
Identify the system-level problem behind customer component specifications.
Create and advance design-in, joint-evaluation, and co-development opportunities by connecting customer roadmaps with internal product and R&D capabilities.
Serve as the technical interface among customers, sales, product divisions, corporate R&D, and external partners; proactively initiate communication to obtain required information and drive decisions.

Miscellaneous Job Responsibilities

Monitor emerging technologies and ecosystem changes, including 800 VDC rack distribution, vertical power delivery, TLVR, switched-capacitor and hybrid converters, IVR, backside power delivery, glass-core substrates, through-glass vias, embedded power components, and advanced cooling.
Build relationships with universities, startups, semiconductor companies, packaging suppliers, and research institutes to identify collaboration and innovation opportunities.
Support predominantly virtual collaboration with sales, technical support, and customer teams across Dallas, San Jose, and other U.S. and global locations; travel as required for customer and partner engagements.
Perform other related duties and support cross-functional initiatives as assigned. This position is currently intended as an individual-contributor role with no direct supervisory responsibility unless otherwise assigned.

What Is Required (Qualifications)

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Power Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Electronic Packaging, or a closely related technical field.
5+ of relevant industry experience in power electronics, server/data center power architecture, board- or package-level PDN/power integrity, semiconductor power applications, power modules, magnetics, or passive components.
Strong understanding of DC-DC power conversion, including buck and multiphase converters; working knowledge of IBC, POL, switched-capacitor, coupled-inductor, or related architectures.
Working knowledge of target impedance, decoupling, voltage droop, transient response, and parasitic resistance and inductance across board and package interconnects.
Ability to convert customer needs into measurable technical requirements, product specifications, technical proposals, or development plans.
Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage circuit designers, package
engineers, system architects, commercial teams, and senior leadership.
Ability to work independently, initiate cross-site communication, and lead projects across organizational and geographic boundaries.

How To Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Electronic Packaging, or a related field.
Experience with Hyperscalers, AI accelerator companies, server OEMs/ODMs, power solution suppliers, or advanced packaging organizations.
Experience with 48 V/54 V power delivery, high-voltage DC distribution, TLVR, vertical power delivery, IVR, hybrid converters, or processors operating above 1 kW or at kiloampere-class current levels.
Knowledge of advanced packages, interposers, glass-core substrates, TGV, embedded passives, backside power delivery, thermal design, or liquid cooling.
Previous technical marketing, product management, field applications, new product definition, customerco-development, design-in, or design-win experience.

Travel

Infrequent domestic and international travel.

Perks