Director, Sustaining Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Engineer, Power Engineering

• Location: Hybrid; Austin or San Jose (minimum 3 days onsite)

• Focus: Power delivery architecture from grid to chip

Description

Provide thought leadership, planning, and design for power delivery components from data center power drop through delivery to systems & chips. Work closely with cross-functional teams—hardware engineers, firmware developers, and data center operations—to ensure infrastructure meets customer requirements and standards for performance, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership, planning, and design for power delivery from data center power drop through delivery to systems & chips

• Establish a power roadmap; coordinate with vendors so future technologies are pulled into the system engineering roadmap while ensuring required system innovation is driven into vendor roadmaps

• Improve reliability and efficiency of power engineering component over time

• Rack-level power components: specify hardware and firmware for rack-level power shelves and design for resiliency

• Set data center power policies for power buffer/oversubscription, scheduling jobs based on power, and monitoring power quality faults / accommodation faults

• Resolve telemetry and data needed to support power policy algorithms

• Ensure robustness of IT power in the presence of grid disturbances and verify compatibility with grid power requirements (“good grid power citizen”)

• Board and system-level power regulation components: apply VRM, TLDR, and POL technologies; help develop new technologies to increase efficiency

• Understand manufacturing capabilities and limitations of new technology

• Guide power equipment manufacturers, ODM and engineering teams on required testing and validation procedures for power hardware and firmware components

• Develop and test hardware prototypes to explore and validate new concepts in power delivery

• Tackle and resolve sophisticated power hardware and firmware issues

• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with specialized knowledge of Power Engineering

• Demonstrated ability in power system and delivery architecture, design, and development

• Experience with rack-level hardware design, including servers, storage, networking, and power distribution

• Proficiency in power hardware and firmware development and debugging

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with new technologies in AI and data center infrastructure

• Comfort engaging directly with customers (internal and external) during requirements gathering and solution development

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Competitive benefits package

• Inclusive work environment and equal opportunity process

• Flexible interview approach with reasonable adjustments available