TechPowerUp is Hiring a Power Supply (PSU) Reviewer

[btarunr]

TPU is looking to hire a PC enthusiast or professional to review PC power supplies (PSUs) part-time. Our current reviewer suvirintojas put out some great work with us since 2023, but has changes in his life that require his attention. We thank him for the wonderful work and hope we find a replacement of equal caliber. TechPowerUp PSU reviews tend to be highly technical, as we dive into the finer aspects of the PSU's switching performance, and quality of electrical output across various voltage domains. We also focus on noise levels and efficiency.

The PSU industry is in a state of transition toward newer standards such as ATX 3.1, PCIe Gen 5 CEM, and perhaps even ATX12VO, which means we'll never run out of new PSUs to review for at least the next few years. This is where you step in—we are looking for a PSU reviewer with fairly high availability for a significant output of reviews. We can help arrange as many PSU samples as you can handle.

• The position is paid, part-time, remote, meaning you'll work from your own testing setup
• This means you need some space for equipment to conduct the testing and photography
• We don't have an exact number in mind, but we're looking for several reviews each month, ideally one a week, more if you can. Please only apply if you think you'll have enough time to achieve this throughput eventually (once you've got a routine figured out)
• While you may already have some contacts with PSU manufacturers, we're happy to connect you with them to ensure a steady supply of review units
• If you have our own testing equipment, that's great, but we can also provide gear for you
• For an idea of our testing process, you can check out our recent PSU reviews. This review structure is not rigid—your feedback is always welcome, and we'll work to onboard you with our in-house content management system
• You must have a decent understanding of a power supply and its internals, you don't have to be able to design one yourself
• We don't expect literary works from you, but you must be able to write decent English. Additionally, you should have basic image editing skills to process your photos
• For shipping logistics, we strongly prefer candidates located in the EU, UK, US, CA, TW, CN and JP (in no particular order). However, if you believe you are exceptional, feel free to make your case. We may consider waiving this requirement for the right candidate

TechPowerUp is a multinational organization with team members across ten time zones. Despite our geographic spread, we've built a tight-knit, collaborative environment, driven by a shared passion for tech. We're geeks at heart. If you're enthusiastic about PC hardware and gaming, and enjoy working in a committed team, we'd love to hear from you.

E-mail your resume to w1zzard@techpowerup.com along with a cover letter on why you think you're the ideal candidate for this position. Please include some basic details about yourself and where you're from. Optionally, you may provide examples of your work in any content medium (text, YouTube, etc.). It's okay if you're not a PSU reviewer, and think you have what it takes to become one.

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[Frick]

Well good luck with this, it ain't easy.

 

[Redwoodz]

Where's Jonny? Time for a new home?

jonnyGURU

www.techpowerup.com

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[Toothless]

Where's Jonny? Time for a new home?

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After him insulting an entire forum, hard pass on him.

 

[Redwoodz]

After him insulting an entire forum, hard pass on him.

I'd much rather have proper reviews than someone who's afraid to step on a few toes. Life goes on, no one was murdered.

 

[Toothless]

I'd much rather have proper reviews than someone who's afraid to step on a few toes. Life goes on, no one was murdered.

Off-site conduct can lead to a bad look. TPU doesn't need someone stepping on toes on other forums.

 

[ir_cow]

Where's Jonny? Time for a new home?

jonnyGURU

www.techpowerup.com

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I gurentee Corsair pays more lol.

 

[Wirko]

you'll work from your own testing setup

Not literally, I hope... A typewriter that can explode is not an appealing thought.

 

[Frick]

I gurentee Corsair pays more lol.

Plus one review per week is pretty steep.

 

[Cheeseball]

We miss you @crmaris

 

[sepheronx]

After him insulting an entire forum, hard pass on him.

he did that to this forums? When and why? shit ive been idle away from here for too long then.

If only I had half my old equipment, I would give it a shot. But I never knew how to drag on an article. I would just say "its good" or "it sucks"

 

[Macro Device]

Eh, only if I were actually at least adept at testing PSUs and making sense of their insides. Writing skills are there, spare time is there, yet I'm underqualified from the tech perspective. Also logistics sucks.

 

[crmaris]

We miss you @crmaris

thank you! But I only write for my own site now, hardware busters and I have so much going on with Cybenetics. It was fun working for TPU all these years and I am still close with these guys, especially Wizzard, I consider them close friends, but I had to move on.

Hope they find a good PSU reviewer, worthy of TPU's name!

 

[Toothless]

he did that to this forums? When and why? shit ive been idle away from here for too long then.

If only I had half my old equipment, I would give it a shot. But I never knew how to drag on an article. I would just say "its good" or "it sucks"

Not here but to another forum. Don't know his reason but it's not good to do either way.

 

[jonnyGURU]

After him insulting an entire forum, hard pass on him.

If you're living in some alternate universe where wrong is right... I have no time for you.

People with more objective opinions are welcome.

 

[sepheronx]

If you're living in some alternate universe where wrong is right... I have no time for you.

People with more objective opinions are welcome.

wow, now that's a poster I aint seen in a very long time.

 

[Sunlight91]

One review per week and you call it a part-time job? That would only be possible if you already have all the PSU testing equipment and a clear test procedure with some automation.

 

[claylomax]

Come on Oklahomawolf, your reviews were the best.

 

[Gigaherz]

Oh cool. Your Reviews are great. Love to see them for PSUs.

 

[Ferrum Master]

If you're living in some alternate universe where wrong is right... I have no time for you.

People with more objective opinions are welcome.

Could you share you vision of useful PSU review format, because, at current form, 99% of them fail to deliver useful data that actually matters for PC builders. We are too much into wanking around useless numbers, basically if a PSU fails to meet some basic ATX specs, it should be banned either way, clients do not need to think about specifics, they do not understand either way, like it is 1970ies esoteric analog tech magazine, but the useful question will my PC with CPU X and GPU Y work without issues, without compromises on protections, imho are being too lax lately, that is a different topic. The spikey mixed load current behaviour is not that reviewed with simulated loads, I fail to see how on earth some more badges can help buyer to answer if my PSU enough. Who says that we actually need so sophisticated supplies, considering the on board VRM power delivery has gotten better itself, not needing so many aspects the reviews cover. 90% of office PC using cheap and cheery OEM PSUs work, the overkill gamer logic stigma, it ventures into stupid... well yeah... money, I understand.

 

[Flanker]

It reminds me my favourite PSU review sites used to be Mike from silentpcreviews and the folks from hardware secrets. But looks like they haven't been around for a while

 

[W1zzard]

One review per week and you call it a part-time job? That would only be possible if you already have all the PSU testing equipment and a clear test procedure with some automation.

Yes, that's the assumption of course. I tried to make that clear in the text. i.e. "after you have done a few reviews and know how everything works, you can do 1 per week"

Not one review per week reinventing everything from the beginning with no experience and no equipment. Writing a new test procedure for every review. I don't think that's even possible unless we send him a time machine.

 

[Hakker]

Yes, that's the assumption of course. I tried to make that clear in the text. i.e. "after you have done a few reviews and know how everything works, you can do 1 per week"

Not one review per week reinventing everything from the beginning with no experience and no equipment. Writing a new test procedure for every review. I don't think that's even possible unless we send him a time machine.

Test procedures should be at TPU already somewhere on their private workers place. Every test procedure should be there for that matter. A lot should be there to help the new person along. If TPU hasn't got a place for that then it lacks some basic professionalism. At my work we have a whole cabinet full of testing procedures and maintenance procedures alone.

 

[W1zzard]

Test procedures should be at TPU already somewhere on their private workers place. Every test procedure should be there for that matter. A lot should be there to help the new person along. If TPU hasn't got a place for that then it lacks some basic professionalism. At my work we have a whole cabinet full of testing procedures and maintenance procedures alone.

Yup, a lot exists already, but as mentioned in the opening post, any reviewer (not only new) is free to suggest better anything.
I'm always listening to my people and willing to make changes, as long as they make sense. That's why I usually work with new reviewers during onboarding in a 1:1 session to figure out how to do things the best way given the new circumstances. Also ask them what tests they think are important, and which could be meaningless, especially to you the readers.

The goal is NOT to have reviews that look extremely technical, super complicated, that you don't understand, to make you assume "they are doing the right thing".

I also don't want people that just blindly follow a test protocol, I can automate that, and feed the numbers into ChatGPT to generate the review text, no reviewer needed.

 

[Frick]

Could you share you vision of useful PSU review format, because, at current form, 99% of them fail to deliver useful data that actually matters for PC builders. We are too much into wanking around useless numbers, basically if a PSU fails to meet some basic ATX specs, it should be banned either way, clients do not need to think about specifics, they do not understand either way, like it is 1970ies esoteric analog tech magazine, but the useful question will my PC with CPU X and GPU Y work without issues, without compromises on protections, imho are being too lax lately, that is a different topic. The spikey mixed load current behaviour is not that reviewed with simulated loads, I fail to see how on earth some more badges can help buyer to answer if my PSU enough. Who says that we actually need so sophisticated supplies, considering the on board VRM power delivery has gotten better itself, not needing so many aspects the reviews cover. 90% of office PC using cheap and cheery OEM PSUs work, the overkill gamer logic stigma, it ventures into stupid... well yeah... money, I understand.

To my mind there are two formats: crmasis, meaning too much detail for avarage joes, or what suvirintojas already did. Maybe I would add hold up time tests, and maybe some other smaller things, but otherwise it's good.

In reality Cybenetics tests much of what is covered in reviews, and much more, so reviews aren't as important anymore, at least not if you stay on known brands with decent warranties.