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Senior RTL Engineer, CPU Power

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Compensation
$163–236K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior RTL Engineer, CPU Power will contribute to custom silicon development for Google products, focusing on CPU architecture, energy modeling, power analysis, and optimization. The role develops power-analysis techniques and tooling, analyzes RTL and gate-level data, collaborates with SoC and CPU power teams, and defines workload tests to improve battery life and CPU energy efficiency.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

RTL DesignVerilogSystemVerilogSoC MicroarchitectureCPU/GPU MicroarchitectureLow-Power Digital DesignLow-Power Design TechniquesPower ManagementRetentionDVFSCPU BenchmarkingPerformance AnalysisCompetitive StudyProcessor MicroarchitectureCC++PythonPTPXAnsys Power ArtistSynopsys Prime Power

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or Related8 Years RTL Design Experience3 Years RTL and Low-Power Design ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in RTL (Register Transfer Level) design using Verilog or SystemVerilog.

  • Experience in SoC or CPU/GPU microarchitecture design.

  • Experience with low-power digital design methodologies.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience in RTL design and low-power design techniques.

  • Experience with power management, retention, and DVFS.

  • Experience with CPU benchmarking, performance analysis, and competitive study.

  • Experience with modern processor microarchitecture and related technologies and algorithms, through academic projects or industry experience.

  • Knowledge of programming languages, such as C, C++, and Python.

  • Expertise in vendor tools such as PTPX, Ansys Power Artist, Synopsys Prime Power, etc.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive multiple activities related to CPU architecture and system-level energy modeling, competitive performance and power analysis, power optimization, simulation, and rollups.

  • Develop novel power analysis techniques, optimization engines, and other tooling solutions to improve battery life analysis and maximize the energy efficiency of our CPU.

  • Perform data mining analysis at the RTL and gate-level to define relevant micro-architectural transactions for high-level power estimation.

  • Collaborate with the SoC and CPU Power Team on power analysis, projections, and requirements for our CPU, including profiling the power of typical workloads on high traffic websites.

  • Perform workload analysis for battery life and define tests for power analysis and optimization.

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How this job compares

Set against the 3,007 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$163–236K/yr
  • California median$146–213K/yr913 salary ranges
  • US median$133–204K/yr2,206 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $200K, is 12% above the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,213 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 3,007 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,544 postings).
Education
1,752 of the 3,007 open Hardware Engineer jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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