Senior Datacenter Power & Performance Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You’ll architect and implement production software for datacenter power management controllers, covering real-time control and interlocks across racks and data halls.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads, guiding features through the full product lifecycle from design to deployment in large-scale data-center infrastructures.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field - equivalent experience.
• 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

Power management

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE/EE

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You’ll architect and implement production software for datacenter power management controllers, covering real-time control and interlocks across racks and data halls.

You will work at the intersection of hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads, guiding features through the full product lifecycle from design to deployment in large-scale data-center infrastructures.