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Staefa, Switzerland

Power Management Architect (m/f/d)

 

At Sonova, we are shaping the future of hearing care through advanced technologies, AI-enabled features, intelligent signal processing, and highly integrated hearing-instrument and charger platforms. A safe, reliable, and scalable power-management architecture is fundamental to bringing these innovations to life.

 

We are looking for an Architect Power Management to provide technology leadership and end-to-end architecture ownership for power management across Sonova hearing instruments and chargers. You will define the technology roadmap, architectural principles, and reusable concepts that guide product-level design across platforms and generations.

 

By translating battery capabilities, charging constraints, thermal and safety boundaries, runtime targets, and future product needs into a coherent architecture, you will ensure consistent system behaviour while enabling Design Owners and development teams to deliver robust product solutions.

 

 

More about the role

 

 

  • Own the Power Management technology roadmap and architecture evolution across hearing instruments and chargers.
  • Define the end-to-end architecture, principles, interfaces, and system boundaries required for safe, reliable, efficient, and scalable power-management behaviour.
  • Establish reusable concepts and reference architectures that enable consistency and reuse across product families, form factors, and future platform generations.
  • Set the architectural direction for BMS and product-level behaviour, including battery-state interpretation, runtime strategy, thermal response, protection, fault handling, telemetry, diagnostics, and hearing-instrument–charger communication.
  • Define the product-level application of PMIC capabilities, including power states, sequencing, low-power modes, wake-up behaviour, charging power paths, and energy optimization.
  • Translate battery, charging, thermal, safety, and regulatory constraints into architecture requirements, design guardrails, and validation principles for development teams.
  • Lead cross-domain architecture alignment and manage technical trade-offs across Battery Cell Technology, SoC/PMIC, Embedded Software, Charging Solutions, System Integration, Safety, Quality, Regulatory, Reliability, Product, and Component teams.
  • Act as the technical decision authority for Power Management, ensuring architectural consistency, traceability, and reuse while supporting Design Owners in product-specific implementation decisions.

 

 

More about you

 

 

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Significant experience in power management, BMS, PMIC applications, charging systems, embedded electronics, or system architecture.
  • Strong understanding of rechargeable battery behaviour, protection and charging strategies, thermal constraints, state estimation, runtime optimization, low-power concepts, and safety mechanisms.
  • Proven ability to translate component-level capabilities and constraints into end-to-end product architecture and system behaviour.
  • Experience working across hardware, firmware, software, battery, charger, safety, quality, regulatory, and product domains.
  • Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to set technical direction, manage complex trade-offs, and make well-founded architectural decisions.
  • Confident communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to lead alignment across multiple technical disciplines and represent the domain in architecture reviews.
  • Structured, proactive, and ownership-driven approach, combined with fluent spoken and written English.

 

 

More about what we offer

 

 

As one of the world’s leading hearing care providers headquartered in Switzerland, we’re committed to building an inclusive culture. We want to create an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work, through our flexible hybrid working model. We offer a wide range of training opportunities for both your professional and personal development, and there are exceptional growth opportunities with individual development plans. 

 

  • A strategic technology role with architecture ownership across current and future hearing-instrument and charger platforms.
  • The opportunity to shape power-management technologies that directly enable advanced hearing-care products.
  • Exposure to complex, highly integrated systems spanning batteries, electronics, embedded software, charging, safety, and product platforms.
  • A collaborative, international environment with close interaction across engineering, product, and technology teams.

 

 

Application process

 

 

Magdalena Suszek, Talent Acquisition Partner, is looking forward to receiving your complete application (cover letter, CV, references and certificates) via our online job application platform. For this vacancy only direct applications will be considered.

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.

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