Senior Principal Power Engineer, Data Center Power Systems

ManpowerGroup; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

401(k) Plus Match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup’s client seeks a Senior Principal Power Engineer in San Jose, CA to architect and implement advanced power systems for servers and data center hardware. You will work across teams on high-density, multi-phase power designs, ensuring thermal integrity and reliability, while guiding cross-functional collaboration and customer engagements.

The role emphasizes deep power electronics expertise, system architecture, and hands-on design using Cadence Allegro and LTspice, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 10+ years in the industry with 5+ years in power supply design and system architecture.
• Deep understanding of high power, low noise, high-density designs with simulations and testing.
• Experience with high current multi-phase power systems (>500W).

Responsibilities

• Architect and support advanced power systems for networking, storage and servers.
• Develop hardware integrated into platform designs (processors, FPGAs, memory, PCB).
• Collaborate across teams to drive system architecture from rack to board level.
• Ensure thermal, safety and power requirements are met; define test plans.
• Engage with customers and suppliers to steer power solution roadmaps.

Skills

Power systems

Power supply design

System architecture

Thermal design

PCB layout

High current

Cross-functional

Communication skills

Simulation

Problem solving

Tools

Cadence Allegro

DxDesigner

LTspice

Spice

Job description

ManpowerGroup’s client seeks a Senior Principal Power Engineer in San Jose, CA to architect and implement advanced power systems for servers and data center hardware. You will work across teams on high-density, multi-phase power designs, ensuring thermal integrity and reliability, while guiding cross-functional collaboration and customer engagements.

The role emphasizes deep power electronics expertise, system architecture, and hands-on design using Cadence Allegro and LTspice, with a focus on