Senior Datacenter Power-Management Software Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to architect and implement datacenter power and performance-management software. You will collaborate with GPU and hardware teams to define hardware-software interfaces and optimize for energy efficiency and reliability.

The role spans full product lifecycle from design to deployment in large data-center infrastructures, with emphasis on end-to-end power management and dynamic provisioning.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in CS, CE, EE, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in system software, embedded firmware, or drivers.
• Strong C programming skills, debugging, and low-level software.
• Deep OS fundamentals, drivers, real-time software, and hardware interaction.
• Experience interpreting hardware specs and interfaces for registers/telemetry.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement data center power and performance-management software.
• Develop real-time controllers and policies for dynamic optimization.
• Lead features across requirements, pre-silicon validation, and production.
• Collaborate with GPU and hardware teams on interfaces.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, and thermal telemetry.
• Drive debugging of power, performance, stability, and reliability issues.
• Create validation strategies and automation for correctness and latency.

Skills

C programming

OS fundamentals

Device drivers

Embedded firmware

Real-time software

Debugging complex systems

Communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE/EE

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to architect and implement datacenter power and performance-management software. You will collaborate with GPU and hardware teams to define hardware-software interfaces and optimize for energy efficiency and reliability.

The role spans full product lifecycle from design to deployment in large data-center infrastructures, with emphasis on end-to-end power management and dynamic provisioning.