Principal Engineer, Power Electronics

Graphcore is seeking a Principal Engineer to define the architecture of power delivery components from the grid to the chip. The role works cross-functionally to develop reliable, efficient, and scalable power infrastructure and guide its design, testing, and validation.

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership, planning, and design for power delivery from data center power drop through delivery to systems & chips
• Establish power roadmap. Work with vendors to ensure their planned future technologies are pulled into our system engineering roadmap AND ensure that our (system engineering) required technological innovation is being driven into their (power vendor) roadmap. Work to improve reliability and efficiency of power engineering component over time
• Rack-level power components. Competency with specification of hardware and firmware for rack-level power shelves. Competency with design for resiliency
• Set power policies in the data center for: power buffer/oversubscription, scheduling of 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 make sure that IT power loads are compatible with grid power requirements (“good grid power citizen”)
• Board and system-level power regulation components. Understand and able to apply current VRM, TLDR, and POL technologies. Help to develop new technologies to increase efficiency. Understand manufacturing capabilities and limitations of new technology. Drive
• Provide guidance to the power equipment manufacturers, ODM and engineering teams on the required testing and validation procedures for power hardware and firmware components
• Develop and test hardware prototypes as needed to support the exploration and validation of new concepts in power delivery
• Tackle and resolve sophisticated power hardware and firmware issues as needed
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with a 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
• Familiarity with new technologies in AI and data center infrastructure
• Comfortable meeting with and engaging directly with customers (internal and external) during requirements gathering and solution development