Senior Datacenter Power-Management Software Engineer

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer for its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect and implement production software for datacenter power management controllers, spanning end-to-end power management in racks and data halls.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, embedded firmware, device drivers, OS, and AI workloads, guiding the product lifecycle from design to deployment in large-scale data centers.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming in C, including debugging and maintaining low-level software, with a deep OS and hardware understanding.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C programming

OS fundamentals

Device drivers

Embedded software

Concurrency

HW/SW interfacing

Communication

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer for its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect and implement production software for datacenter power management controllers, spanning end-to-end power management in racks and data halls.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, embedded firmware, device drivers, OS, and AI workloads, guiding the product lifecycle from design to deployment in large-scale data centers.