Power Validation Engineer

The role

You will own the end-to-end power characterization of the ASIC and mezzanine card platform from silicon bring-up through production qualification. You will design measurement methodology, build test benches, and drive findings into silicon, package, and system design decisions.

What you will do

• Design and execute power measurement campaigns across all voltage rails
• Validate power delivery network performance
• Profile power transient events and correlate with on-die performance monitor data
• Build automated power sweep frameworks
• Run extended stress workloads to surface reliability risks and throttling behavior
• Validate power sequencing, PMBus telemetry accuracy, and BMC alert thresholds
• Feed characterization data back to RTL and physical design teams
• Lead the electrical characterization, validation, and qualification process for the on-board system-level power distribution network
• Provide support to design engineers through debug, component validation, and failure analysis
• Develop and implement automated/scripted test procedures

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Deep understanding of ASIC and system-level power delivery
• Hands-on bench experience using precision shunts, isolated differential probes, and VNA-based PDN impedance measurement
• Expertise with multi-phase solutions with high dynamic content and low tolerance
• Experience with VR tuning to a well defined power test plan
• Ability to design experiments that isolate root cause in a complex hardware-software stack
• Strong oscilloscope and lab instrument fluency
• Relevant experience with Silicon bring ups

Nice to have

• Advanced degrees or certifications in power electronics or related areas
• Masters Degree in Power Electronics
• Experience with high voltage testing (800V and higher)
• Prior power validation work on AI accelerators, GPUs, or high-performance server platforms
• Experience with OpenBMC, IPMI, or custom BMC firmware
• Familiarity with LLM inference stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or similar)
• Proficiency in Python for test automation, data pipeline construction, and statistical analysis

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

About the company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. They are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row).