Senior SoC Power & Performance Architect

Intel Corporation; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Intel Corporation seeks an experienced SoC CPU power-management architect to define and drive the power-management architecture for next-gen mobile and desktop CPUs. You will own end-to-end CPU power and performance requirements, guide implementations, and collaborate with firmware, OS, validation, and product teams.

You will lead architecture reviews, translate usage models into requirements, and push energy efficiency across idle to peak workloads, in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 6+ years experience; or advanced degrees with reduced years.
• 4+ years in SoC/IP architecture, CPU/SoC design, microarchitecture or power and performance engineering.
• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture reviews and trade-off decisions.
• Knowledge of DVFS, clock/power gating, idle states, telemetry and OS/firmware interactions.

Responsibilities

• Own the power-management and performance architecture for mobile and desktop CPUs as part of the CPU architecture team.
• Define architectural capabilities, develop techniques, guide implementation, and drive energy efficiency.
• Create workload-based power/performance models; compare with pre/post-silicon data.
• Collaborate with firmware/OS teams on end-to-end power-management capabilities.
• Lead design reviews and translate product usage into architectural requirements.

Skills

CPU architecture

Power & performance

System-level thinking

Technical leadership

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Eng./Computer Eng.

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

DVFS concepts

Clock gating & power gating

Telemetry & thermal constraints

Power modeling tools

Performance benchmarking tools

Modeling & simulation

Job description

Intel Corporation seeks an experienced SoC CPU power-management architect to define and drive the power-management architecture for next-gen mobile and desktop CPUs. You will own end-to-end CPU power and performance requirements, guide implementations, and collaborate with firmware, OS, validation, and product teams.

You will lead architecture reviews, translate usage models into requirements, and push energy efficiency across idle to peak workloads, in a hybrid work model.