Senior Datacenter Power & Performance Software Engineer

NVIDIA; California (MO); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and cover cluster-level provisioning and power-management topics for next-generation data-centers.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads, guiding the full product lifecycle from design through deployment in

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• At least 12+ years crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, including developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
• Deep understanding of OS fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded/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 end-to-end focus on rack and data hall power management.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under heavy 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 for power-management in next-gen processors.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, 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, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across conditions.
• Build architecture, interface, and compose 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

Concurrency

Embedded/RTOS

Troubleshooting complex systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and cover cluster-level provisioning and power-management topics for next-generation data-centers.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads, guiding the full product lifecycle from design through deployment in