Senior Data-Center Power & Performance Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer for the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads.

You will lead end-to-end development from requirements and pre-silicon validation to deployment in large-scale data-centers, influencing power, performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of next-generation GPUs.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• At least 12+ years of extensive industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
• Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
• Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
• Proven ability to independently debug complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software, with particular emphasis on end-to-end power management at racks and data halls.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads.
• Drive features across the full product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces and influence the power-management capabilities of next-generation processors.
• Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions.
• Build clear architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with geographically distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems teams.

Skills

C programming

Operating systems fundamentals

Device drivers

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer for the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads.

You will lead end-to-end development from requirements and pre-silicon validation to deployment in large-scale data-centers, influencing power, performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of next-generation GPUs.