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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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As a Senior Principal Power Management Architect within the SoC Architecture team, you will lead the definition, optimization, and implementation of power-management capabilities across advanced silicon and computing platforms. You will develop strategies to balance energy efficiency, performance, thermals, reliability, and product cost while architecting low-power features like dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, clock gating, and idle-state management. Your daily work involves specifying firmware interfaces, control loops, and algorithms for real-time optimization, as well as defining telemetry architectures for voltage, temperature, and current sensors. You will also oversee thermal-management strategies and conduct performance-per-watt characterization using various workload suites. This role addresses the technical challenge of managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure by integrating hardware, firmware, and operating-system components to ensure high-quality, scalable, and cost-effective delivery for large-scale data center environments.
Windows Modern Standby
S0ix
Power Management
SoC
Firmware
BIOS
System Architecture
Silicon Design
Validation
Debug
Pre-silicon
post silicon
Technical Test Plan Development
SoC
System Architecture
Silicon Roadmap
AI
CPU
GPU
NPU
Memory
Power Management
Performance Analysis
System Modeling
Firmware
Heterogeneous Compute
Security