Senior Principal Power Attainment Lead, Pre-Silicon

Description

Invent the future with us.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.

As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.

Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply! 

About The Role

We are looking for a highly experienced and visionary Senior Principal Power Attainment Lead to join our Silicon Engineering leadership. This is a pivotal, high-impact where you will shape the power efficiency of our next-generation processors.

As the manager for the pre-silicon power team, you will be responsible for building and guiding your direct reports. In parallel, you will serve as the global technical domain owner for all pre-silicon power activities. You will be the ultimate authority setting the technical strategy and orchestrating execution across our geographically distributed teams. Your leadership will be the driving force that ensures our products achieve their aggressive power targets and set new standards for performance-per-watt in the industry.

What You'll Achieve

• Team Management: Directly manage, mentor, and cultivate a world-class US-based pre-silicon power engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and execution excellence.
• Global Domain Strategy: As the technical domain owner, define the global strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for power modeling, analysis, and convergence across all projects.
• Innovate on Power Reduction Features: Partner closely with Architecture and RTL design teams to define, specify, and drive the implementation of novel power reduction features and methodologies from concept to tape-out.
• Drive Technical Execution: Spearhead the definition of critical test scenarios and benchmarks required for accurate power analysis. You will govern the cross-functional coordination to secure essential activity collateral (e.g., FSDBs, SAIFs) from Design Verification and Emulation teams.
• Govern Power Budgets & Convergence: Collaborate with executive leadership to establish power budgets. You will own and govern the end-to-end power convergence process, holding all teams accountable for meeting their targets.
• Champion Methodology & Infrastructure: Drive the strategic evolution of our global pre-silicon power analysis methodologies and infrastructure, ensuring best-in-class automation and analytical capabilities across all sites.
• Influence Cross-Functional Design: Serve as the definitive power expert and consultant to Micro-Architecture and Physical Design leaders, influencing critical trade-offs and design decisions to achieve optimal power results.
  
  

About You

Your career must demonstrate a clear progression into roles of increasing strategic scope, including both people management and cross-functional technical leadership.

• Proven Technical Leadership: A distinguished track record of technical leadership on complex SoC/CPU projects, with multiple successful tape-outs where you were directly responsible for power attainment.
• People Management Experience: Demonstrated experience in direct people management, including hiring, career development, and performance management for a team of senior engineers.
• Matrixed Environment Success: Proven ability to lead and influence geographically distributed teams in a matrixed organization, driving technical alignment and results without direct managerial authority.
• Technical Authority: Deep, authoritative expertise in modern power reduction techniques (advanced clock gating, power gating, DVFS, etc.) and their architectural implications.
• Architectural Acumen: Strong command of CPU and SoC architecture, with an ability to analyze complex workload characteristics and their power implications.
• Hands-On Analysis & Tools: Mastery of industry-standard power analysis tools (e.g., Spyglass, Power Artist, Joules, PrimeTime-PX) and methodologies for RTL and gate-level analysis.
• Automation and Scripting: Strong programming skills (Python, Tcl) for automating flows and data analysis.
• Electrical or Computer Engineering - Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of related experience; or Master's degree & 8 years; or PhD & 5 years
  
  

What We’ll Offer

At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $225,500 and $338,500, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $237,000 and $356,000. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.

Benefit Highlights Include

• Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future.
• Unlimited Flextime and 10 paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance.
• A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
  
  

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.